Piltdown man

 
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪltdaʊn/

noun

  • a fraudulent fossil composed of a human cranium and an ape jaw, allegedly discovered near Lewes in East Sussex and presented in 1912 as a genuine hominid of the early Pleistocene, but shown to be a hoax in 1953.

Origin:

Piltdown, the name of a village in Sussex