Charles Dawson

✶July 11, 1864

†August 10, 1916

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About their life

Charles Dawson was a British amateur archaeologist who claimed to have made a number of archaeological and palaeontological discoveries that were later exposed as frauds. These forgeries included the Piltdown Man, a unique set of bones that he claimed to have found in 1912 in Sussex. Many technological methods such as fluorine testing indicate that this discovery was a hoax, and Dawson, the only person with the skill and knowledge to generate this forgery, was a major suspect.

British archaeological forger (1864-1916)

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Biography from the article Charles Dawson on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.