Piltdown Forgery (136 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. 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 Museum in London, Arthur Smith Woodward, who had found fragments of a thickset skull and an ape-like lower jaw, along with other bones and stone tools. These fragments pointed to a species of early human who had lived in England a million years ago-a 'missing link' between apes and modern man. But, as Weiner and his colleagues were to reveal in 1953, the skull was a recent one, and the jaw had belonged to an orang-utan. These and many other 'finds' from Piltdown had been deliberately stained and tampered with to make them appear ancient, and the scientific establishment had been well and truly fooled.Widely praised from its first publication in 1955, The Piltdown Forgery remains the classic account of this story and its many players. In this fiftieth anniversary edition, Professor Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins at the Natural History Museum in London, provides an introduction to this famous story, and an afterword containing the latest detective-work. Ever-increasing technological powers may one day reveal who did what, and why, but until then this remains an engrossing tale of mixed motives, captivating trickery, and competing egos: a tale fit to rival the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (himself a player in this saga) at his best.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 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 Museum in London, Arthur Smith Woodward, who had found fragments of a thickset skull and an ape-like lower jaw, along with other bones and stone tools. These fragments pointed to a species of early human who had lived in England a million years ago-a 'missing link' between apes and modern man. But, as Weiner and his colleagues were to reveal in 1953, the skull was a recent one, and the jaw had belonged to an orang-utan. These and many other 'finds' from Piltdown had been deliberately stained and tampered with to make them appear ancient, and the scientific establishment had been well and truly fooled.Widely praised from its first publication in 1955, The Piltdown Forgery remains the classic account of this story and its many players. In this fiftieth anniversary edition, Professor Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins at the Natural History Museum in London, provides an introduction to this famous story, and an afterword containing the latest detective-work. Ever-increasing technological powers may one day reveal who did what, and why, but until then this remains an engrossing tale of mixed motives, captivating trickery, and competing egos: a tale fit to rival the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (himself a player in this saga) at his best.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1990. Physical Anthropology, early man. Natural History Publications, Oxford University Press, very good cloth and good+ dust jacket with minor sun fading along spine and edges otherwise tight and clean.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dover Publications 1981 8vo. 214 pages. clean, tight copy.

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Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Dover Edition. Ex-library. 214 pages. From the back cover: ".In 1953 a team of British Museum and Oxford University investigators stunned the scientific world. Eoathropus dawsoni, Charles Dawson's famous manape, was just that--a modern human cranium and the jaw of an orangutan, chemically created and chiseled in the crudest manner. The Piltdown Forgery (1955) is the first and indispensable statement of the case, the classic analysis of the greatest scientific fraud of the century.". Historical Fraud--Evolution.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Based on research by Ian Langham (1942-1984). Contents Include: the search for Tertiary Man: a prologue to Piltdown; Piltdown: a prima facie case; Bones, stones & egos I: the Piltdown debates 1913; Bones, stones & egos II: the Piltdown debates 1914-1917; Steps to the scaffold: the Piltdown controversy 1918-1950, Etc. Very good tight condition with very good dust jacket. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. xii. + 214pp. + catalogue. Occasional photographs. Unabridged reprint of the 1955 Oxford University Press edition.

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Cloth. Condition: Very Good -. Very Good -. (1990), 272pp, illus., blue cloth, light shelfwear to cover, slight foxing to top pg edges, owner's stamp to fep, sun fading to dj spine, slight soiling & edgewear to dj, contents clean.