 An extensive scientific review in 2016 established that amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson was its likely perpetrator.In 1912, Charles Dawson claimed that he had discovered the "missing link" between ape and man.In February 1912, Dawson contacted Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum, stating he had found a section of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown, East Sussex.