Deep Cuts 8 - Piltdown and Out

It's been hectic over at The Dirt HQ! Rather than leaving your feeds dark for a month, here's a Patreon-exclusive episode from earlier this year:

Last month, you joined us on a tour of human evolution, and our many ancestors therein. We also shared a bit from Dirt After Dark about pseudoarchaeology and its racist underpinnings. For this month’s Deep Cuts, why not a bit of both? We present to you the Piltdown Man, the most contentious human ancestor there never was.

To read (or watch) more, check out: 

Pyne, Lydia (2016) Seven Skeletons: The evolution of the world’s most famous human fossils. 

Russell, Miles (2003). Piltdown Man: The secret life of Charles Dawson & the world’s greatest archaeological hoax.

Spencer, Frank (1990) Piltdown: A scientific forgery.

Study reveals culprit behind Piltdown Man, one of science’s most famous hoaxes (Science)

Piltdown Man is revealed as fake (PBS)

Photo credit: “Restoration of the head of Piltdown Man,” from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.