World History Minute: Piltdown Man ‘discovered’ (Dec. 18, 1912)
World History Minute: Piltdown Man ‘discovered’ (Dec. 18, 1912)
WBEZ brings you unbiased news and information.
Sign up for our newsletters
to stay up to date on the stories that matter.
On December 18, 1912, scientists announced the discovery of what was thought to be the missing link between apes and humans: Piltdown Man, who was estimated to live about 500,000 years ago. But decades later, Piltdown Man turned out to be a huge fraud. Historian John Schmidt explains.
(Photo: Wikicommons/Popular Science Monthly Volume 82)