Piltdown Hoax

The Piltdown Hoax is about the finding made by Charles Dawson in England, 1912. He declared to have found the remainders of an ancient human ancestor in the pit of Piltdown. This founding was quick to call the attention of the scientific community since during this time fossils were not known to be found in England. Instead they were more common to be found in Asia, France and Germany. His was what look like a piece of a skull, later on Dawson found the what turned to be the remains of a female ape jaw bone, what was strange of this fossil was that the ape possessed human teeth, something was never seeing before. This fossils were essential to make the connection between ancient human and apes, the scientific community thought it could be the missing link. During this time there was no questioning or doubting Dawson founds, he was trusted that he was been honest, but it wasn’t until 1950 that he's founding started to be questionable and with the new technology and methods created, the hoax was investigated. A British Museum  used the technique of Fluorine Analysis to demonstrate that piece of skull they had found was older than the jaw. The skull was probably around 100 years older. Creating a more deep investigation to the rest of the fossils. This investigation ended with the discovery that perhaps Dawson had dig the fossils there himself or someone else had done it. With the new advancement in technology many theories and many people have being put into doubt. Dawson is an example of it. When had just discovered the fossils his word was taken with no questioning, to just two 20 years later be questionable. Science is the fact, theory, always based on proof. But at the end is the facts that humans themselves can present. Because of this I think it’s hardly doable to remove human factor from science. What I learned from this, was that sometimes you can’t trust people until their proof has been verified.