# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-dawson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:15:40.671Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-dawson"
name: "Charles Dawson"
slug: "charles-dawson"
description: "Charles Dawson was a British amateur archaeologist who claimed to have made a number of archaeological and palaeontological discoveries that were later exposed as frauds. These forgeries included the Piltdown Man, a unique set of bones that he claimed to have found in 1912 in Sussex. Many technological methods such as fluorine testing indicate that this discovery was a hoax, and Dawson, the only one with the skill and knowledge to generate this forgery, was a major suspect."
tagline: "British archaeological forger (1864-1916)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Piltdown_gang_(dark).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1864-07-11"
deathDate: "1916-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.54079066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump