The events surrounding the Piltdown fossil discoveries provide important lessons for the scientific community. Place in chronological order the events that occurred before and after the excavations at Piltdown Common. a. The leading scientific hypothesis was that a large brain was the most important human featureb. Piltdown mas was found in southern England and is determined to be early human ancestorc. Australopithecus africanus was found in South Africad. Piltdown man was discovered to be a hoax