'Pilt Down Man'

In february of 19 12, sir arthur smith, woodward, keeper of geology at the british museum, now called the natural history museum, got a letter from charles dawson. He said he had found something very exciting in some gravel beds in pilt down, sussex. Dawson dug these fragments out of the trash and found that they were part of a skull. They had an ape like mandible, or jawbone. Two of its molars were in place and had significant ware. And then there were pieces of the brain case of a skull, which seemed a lot more human than the mandible did.