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The Piltdown forgery /J.S. Weiner ; with a new introduction and afterword by Chris Stringer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2003.Edition: 50th anniversary editionDescription: 1 online resource (xix, 212 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191505065
  • 9781283923750
  • 9780191916755
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GN282 .P558 2003
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Contents:
Subject: On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--described their investigations into the important fossilized human remains found at Piltdown in Sussex in the early 1900s. Their conclusion was stunning: the remains, and the accompanying materials that supposedly verified them as ancient fossils, had all been faked. The discovery of Piltdown Man had been announced to the world in 1912 by an amateur fossil hunter, Charles Dawson, and the Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museu.
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Originally published: London; New York : Oxford University Press, 1955.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Piltdown Forgery; Some characters in the Piltdown story; Preface; Note to second impression; Illustrations; 1. A Darwinian prediction; 2. An impasse; 3. An hypothesis; 4. The jaw displaced; 5. Flint and fauna; 6. The full extent; 7. The principals and their part; 8. Some others; 9. Lineaments of the forger; 10. Events reconsidered; 11. Entanglement; 12. 'The eye wink'; 13. The Sussex wizard; 14. The question of complicity; Epilogue; Afterword: Piltdown 2003; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T.

On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--described their investigations into the important fossilized human remains found at Piltdown in Sussex in the early 1900s. Their conclusion was stunning: the remains, and the accompanying materials that supposedly verified them as ancient fossils, had all been faked. The discovery of Piltdown Man had been announced to the world in 1912 by an amateur fossil hunter, Charles Dawson, and the Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museu.

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