Come up with idea

What is Science?

Design experiments

Test hypothesis

Falsifiable

Science is self-correcting

Case in point…tho not speedy

Relationship btwn Neandertals & moderns

Civilized world

Bipedalism & big brain @ same time

Skull race paralleled space race

Neandertal finds in Germany/France

Historical Context

Predetermined outcome

1911, Eoanthropus dawsonii announced

Excavations @ Piltdown

Thick cranial bones

Small brain case

Foramen magnum

No condyle

Canine

Molars

Nasals

Tools

Fauna

Worked with minimal Neandertals

Many hominids in 20s & 30s

Oakley performs fluoride dating on skull, jaw & gets same date

Scientific Hoax

Later scrapes below brown stain, different ages

Whodunnit?

Doctor of anatomy

Grudge against science

Taxonomic frolics

Lived nearby Piltdown

Knew Dawson

Bought house of dentist

Another Possibility…

Borneo orang

Golf course

Honeymoon

Flint maniac

Lost World author

Orang/man

Map in Archaeology

Overlapping maps

If you’re clever enough and you know your business, you can fake a bone as easily as a photograph

Clues in Lost World

A practical joke would be one of the most elementary developments of man

Clues in Lost World

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle