British scientists want to know who perpetrated the Piltdown Man hoax in 1912. Did the hoaxers expect that the stained skull, jawbone, and “cricket bat” would immediately be spotted as fakes? “No one did any scientific tests. If they had, they would have noticed the chemical staining and the filed-down teeth very quickly. This was clearly […]

Archaeologists are uncovering the roots of the industrial revolution in Los Angeles, California, at the site of Chapman’s Mill and the San Gabriel Mission. The artifacts include a brass religious medallion, a nineteenth-century Spanish coin, local and imported pottery, beads, and plenty of food remains. More than 60,000 artifacts have been excavated from a backyard […]