Re: Piltdown man
and the eventual confessions of the perpetrators.
As far as I recall no one every confessed. I think the facts of the matter are:
Piltdown man was taken seriously for a time. It caused difficulties when real finds were not in agreement with it and caused them to be treated less seriously.
As other finds grew in number the anomoly that was Piltdown started to stand out as an anomoly more and more but did cause confusion for many years.
By the time new methods proved it to be a fake no one was surprised.
No one every knew for sure who did it.
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