 In a documentary about Piltdown the American writer John Evangelist Walsh said about the identity of the forger "I’ll give you his name without hesitation and without making you wait.Charles Dawson was the perpetrator.Alone, by himself without the least bit of help”

Professor Adrian Lister of the UK's Natural History Museum has said that "some people have suggested" that there may also have been a second 'fraudster' seeking to use outrageous fraud in the hope of anonymously exposing the original frauds.