2012 December – Piltdown: 100 years on
![‘Discussion on the Piltdown Skull’ by John Cooke (ref: GSL/POR/19) from the archives of the Geological Society of London](https://hogg.tolstow.dev/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Piltdown-Cooke-web.jpg)
One hundred years ago, Piltdown man was revealed to the world at a packed and excited meeting at the Geological Society of London on 18 December 1912. It was hailed as a very early species of human – possibly even a missing link between man and ape that Charles Darwin had predicted. It was of […]