Number 39 – Their archaeologists pander to and defraud the public

First of all I'd like to point out that archeologists is the US spelling, I have spelt the word the English way (or rather, the correct way) above.
The example given by Mr Grasse is that of the Piltdown Man, and I have to say, he is correct in stating that the Piltdown Man is a fraud, however it did not just fool British archaeologists, it fooled people the world over for 40 years.
All that being said Mr Grasse is wrong on a couple of counts firstly the jawbone was from an orang-utan not a chimpanzee, the teeth were from a chimpanzee.
The reason it fooled people the world over is because it was remarkably well done, it proved the theory of the time, that we developed the large modern brain before the modern omnivorous diet.
Can anyone name any other hoaxes that have fooled people for years, but then turn out to be hoaxes? How about the famous video of the Bigfoot taken by Roger Patterson? Or maybe the the Cardiff Giant, which American people flocked to see in their thousands until it was discovered that the Giant was no more than a crude modern statue that had been buried to make it look old (this happened in 1869, 43 years before the Piltdown Man).