References
- Bodies of evidence:
from the Channel 4 TV programme - Radiocarbon dating:
the 'Dating Game' interactive from NOVA
Piltdown man
In order to prove Dawson and Woodward really had found the earliest human ever discovered, they needed to work out the age of the bones. Click on the picture to find out how they did it. Compare it with the techniques scientists would use today.
Dating the bones
It was difficult to work out just how old the human fossils were. Dawson and Woodward would not have had one specific method that could accurately work out the age of the human fossils. Their best way to estimate the age of the fossils of Piltdown Man was to identify the mammal bones that had been found with them in order to see what animals existed at the same time.
