This episode is a mystery in the most classic literary sense of the word. It’s a whodunit detective story that spans more than a century - the saga of the Piltdown Man Hoax. From a gravel pit in Sussex, we follow the faked fossils through history, to what’s now the Natural History Museum in London, where scientists are using new technologies to try to unravel the identity of the fraudster, and explore how this hoax impacted the study of human origins.
Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time is produced by Complexly for PBS.
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What Happened To The Neandertals?
Who Were The Denisovans?
What Did The Past Sound Like?
The Lost Human Fossils of World War II
Why Do We Care About What Happened Millions Of Years Ago? (Mailbag Episode with Hank Green)
The Strange Graveyard At The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry
The Extinct Human Species Discovered Deep Within A Cave System
What Was The First Dinosaur?
The Only Human In The La Brea Tar Pits
Introducing Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time
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