Question

Please write a paragraph describing why it took so long (four decades) for the Piltdown hoax to be exposed. In your opinion, what does the Piltdown hoax tell us about the strengths or weaknesses of the scientific method?

Answer 1

• Piltdown hoax are the skull bones of early man was found to be a forgery.
• Piltdown hoax has been thought to be missing link between ape and man.
• Piltdown hoax has been recreated for fame.
• Piltdown hoax was identified by Charles Dawson in 1911.
• In 1912 this infamous story came into existence.
• The fraud has been in its existence for about 50 years because Piltdown hoax has been found in Europe and scientists approved as they thought that Eurasia is the origin of earliest humans.
• Fluorine absorption dating proved the Piltdown hoax is a fraud in 1953 and thus the story of Piltdown hoax ended.
• The skull fragments carbon dating (C14) has shown that it is only 50,000 years old but not million years old.
• Bones have been artificially colored to show it is very old.
• Teeth and jaw bone belong to an orangutan and chimpanzee dead for 500 years.