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Charles Dawson

1864 - 1916

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Charles Dawson (11 July 1864 – 10 August 1916) was a British amateur archaeologist who claimed to have made a number of archaeological and palaeontological discoveries that were later exposed as frauds. These forgeries included the Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni), a unique set of bones that he claimed to have found in 1912 in Sussex. Many technological methods such as fluorine testing indicate that this discovery was a hoax, and Dawson, the only one with the skill and knowledge to generate this forgery, was a major suspect. The eldest of three sons, Dawson moved with his family from Preston, Lancashire, to Hastings, Sussex, when he was still very young. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Dawson is the 122nd most popular archaeologist (down from 82nd in 2019), the 4,402nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,966th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Charles Dawson ranks 122 out of 151. Before him are Blaga Aleksova, Carl Blegen, Zakaria Goneim, Michael D. Coe, Julio C. Tello, and James Mellaart. After him are Ekrem Akurgal, Ivan Borkovský, Nancy Dupree, Klaus Schmidt, John Beazley, and Karel Absolon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Charles Dawson ranks 156. Before him are William S. Hart, Artur Văitoianu, Anna Golubkina, F. Holland Day, Alberto Nepomuceno, and Hanna Pauli. After him are Sergei Zubatov, Emil Kellenberger, Alexandre Levy, Elinor Glyn, Emine Semiye Önasya, and Frances Benjamin Johnston. Among people deceased in 1916, Charles Dawson ranks 139. Before him are Sámuel Teleki, Béla Békessy, William Merritt Chase, Lorenzo Latorre, Mary Everest Boole, and Samu Fóti. After him are Aeneas Mackintosh, Gorch Fock, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Charles Ericksen, Guido Gozzano, and Alexander Voeikov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Dawson ranks 4,403 out of 8,785. Before him are Ken Wharton (1916), Tobias Furneaux (1735), Dan Stevens (1982), Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857), James Milner (1986), and Joe Dempsie (1987). After him are William Robertson (1721), Swithun (800), Joe Mercer (1914), Toby Stephens (1969), Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (1932), and Graham Gouldman (1946).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Dawson ranks 23. Before him are Dorothea Bate (1878), John Marshall (1876), John Evans (1823), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), and James Mellaart (1925). After him are John Beazley (1885), Grahame Clark (1907), James Prinsep (1799), Meave Leakey (1942), John M. Allegro (1923), and Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869).

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