 It satisfied European expectations that the earliest humans would be found in Eurasia, and the British, it has been claimed, also wanted a "first Briton" to set against fossil hominids found elsewhere in Europe.The identity of the Piltdown forger remains unknown, but suspects have included Dawson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Arthur Keith, Martin A. C. Hinton, Horace de Vere Cole and Arthur Conan Doyle.The focus on Charles Dawson as the main forger is supported by the accumulation of evidence regarding other archaeological hoaxes he perpetrated in the decade or two before the Piltdown discovery.