You are truly smoking dope here. It was touted as fact for fifty years. Doctorate dissertations were written using it. Quit reading lies.
Bwahahahaha! It was presented to the scientific community in 1912.
"As early as 1913, David Waterston of King's College London published in Nature his conclusion that the sample consisted of an ape mandible and human skull. Likewise, French paleontologist Marcellin Boule concluded the same thing in 1915. A third opinion from the American zoologist Gerrit Smith Miller concluded that Piltdown's jaw came from a fossil ape. In 1923, Franz Weidenreich examined the remains and correctly reported that they consisted of a modern human cranium and an orangutan jaw with filed-down teeth."
- Wikipedia
In fact, no respectable museum of natural history would put it on display, based on the fact that the scientific community smelled a rat from the start.
It was presented to the scientific community in 1912.
