Piltdown man is one of the classic cases of fraud in the annals of modern science .
These clues could have led to the unmasking of Piltdown man as a hoax shortly after its discovery and before it became well known. In this edition of Storybytes, we review the Strange Case of the Piltdown Man and some of the evidence and clues that might point to this author as the source of the fossils of Piltdown man. I had listened with the greatest interest to the statement which Holmes, with characteristic clearness, had laid before me. Fossils of Neanderthal man were first found in 1856, and the race was on to find the fossil remains of human ancestors. During the next half century, more fossil remains were found in continental Europe and in Asia but not in England.