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| Title | The Piltdown Forgery |
| Author | Weiner, J. S. |
| Asset Number | 00188 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN | |
| Published Date | 1955 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Printing | 1 |
| Description | Cloth hardcover with unclipped dust jacket.
The Piltdown Forgery is the story of how the so-called "Dawn Man of Piltdown" was shown to be a fake. The text was originally written in 1955, by J. S. Weiner, a physical anthropologist from the University of Oxford, who together with K. Oakley (British Museum) and W. Le Gros Clark (University of Oxford), undertook a detailed and close examination using what-in the 1950s-were novel scientific analyses. These confirmed that Piltdown man did not fit among the different species in the human evolutionary tree because Piltdown was not a real fossil, but a very carefully prepared fraud. |
| Category | Life Science |
| Epoch | Vintage |
| Date Acquired | 26/03/2022 |
| Condition | (2) Very Good |
