Definition of: Eoanthropus

(ē′ō·an·thrō′pəs, -an′thrə-) noun
A spurious type of early man (E. dawsoni) based on incompatible skull fragments found by Charles Dawson and others in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown, England, between 1909 and 1915; exposed in 1953 as a fossil artifact combining a modern skull with the jaw of an orangutan. Also called Dawn man, Piltdown man. [<NL <Gk. ēōs dawn + anthropos man]