Both the Piltdown Man and Carthage Giant resemble popular hoaxes that during their time, advanced the conversation of alternative Archaeology throughout the world.  To specify, the Piltdown man constituted a finding that “proved” the Brain Centered Theory of evolution to be true: the idea that the brain evolved first, followed by modern human traits.  Overall the motivations behind the “discovery” and hoax of the Piltdown man had to do with Nationalist ideas and jealousy as a whole.  At the time, England was the only European nation without a major fossil discovery, and jealousy overtook Charles Dawson and company over to fake a discovery that would put England on the Archaeological map.  In turn, most English people believed this hoax to be true almost instantaneously as they wanted England to be the center of Archaeology so badly.  

            On the other hand, the Carthage Giant mainly relied on religious ideas of ancient Giants who roamed the past world.  Therefore, when Stub Newell discovered the fake giant on his property, people wanted to believe so badly that he had actually found a giant that most people turned a blind eye to the astounding evidence piled against him.  However, George Hull’s real motivations revolved not around Christianity, but Atheism, and wanted to prove how silly Christians were for believing in “tall tales”.   Therefore, he organized every aspect of the hoax in order to disprove Christianity.  Stub Newell, however, was mainly motivated by the shear amount of money he was able to make in the peak of the hoax.  By today’s standards, Newell got off with Millions of Dollars in gains from the sideshow.  In fact, the figures continue to generate profit today as they are set up in museums for which people have to pay to get in and see.  

            Overall, the lesson I take from both of these hoaxes comes as the fact that both of the hoaxes exemplify the corrective nature of science.  For example, before scientists took a closer look at Piltdown man, people believed the findings automatically, simply because they wished them to be true.  If it weren’t for scientists asking the important questions when it came down to the Piltdown man, and asking to examine it closer, people might still believe those fossils to be true; creating a great misunderstanding on the origins of our past and the Brain Centered Theory in general.  By placing extreme critical measures on all findings, science is able to correct itself fairly easily when looking at pieces of false information, if and only if scientists as the right questions.  

            Likewise, in the case of the Carthage Giant, scientists who came in and asked to examine the find found pretty quickly that this was a fake.  Also like the case of the Piltdown man, before scientists came in and asked questions, the general population believed the find to be valid simply because of the interpretation of the past they wished to be true.  Therefore, the case of the Piltdown man also shows the importance of science in the realm of correcting one another’s work and findings.