The Society’s conference, which took place on 22 September in Lewes, was a great success and attracted attention from the BBC both at local and national level. Speakers from the Natural History Museum, the British Museum, London, Bournemouth and Southampton Universities and the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa gathered to commemorate the centenary of this notorious fraud and to examine the evidence against the chief suspects while placing the fraud in its historical context and concluding with a look at the real evidence of early habitation still coming to light at the Piltdown site.
