Days That Shook the World
Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur/Piltdown Man
S2 • E7 Nov 21, 2004 50m
September 1824 and 20 November 1953
Two archaeological 'discoveries' which profoundly altered our understanding of the natural world: the first unearthing of the bones of an ancient giant reptile, and the astonishing discovery of the 'missing link' between ape and man - soon to be revealed as an elaborate hoax.
Two archaeological 'discoveries' which profoundly altered our understanding of the natural world: the first unearthing of the bones of an ancient giant reptile, and the astonishing discovery of the 'missing link' between ape and man - soon to be revealed as an elaborate hoax.