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The Boldest Hoax (about Piltdown Man case) PBS NOVA; Sarah Lyell, "Piltdown Man Hoaxer: Missing Link is Found", The New York Times, 25 May 1996. The case for Martin A. C. Hinton as the hoaxer. An annotated bibliography of the Piltdown Man forgery, 1953–2005 Archived 8 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine by Tom Turrittin.
In 1949, further questions were raised about the Piltdown Man and its authenticity, which led to the conclusive demonstration that Piltdown was a hoax in 1953. Since then, a number of Dawson's other finds have also been shown to be forged or planted.
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Nature announced Talent's observations with a statement that it "will cast a longer shadow" than the Piltdown Man because of its elaborate publications involving numerous discoveries through a quarter of a century, fossils and scientists. [2] The Chicago Tribune conveyed the news as "the most serious case of its kind since the Piltdown hoax."
Kenneth Page Oakley (7 April 1911 – 2 November 1981) was an English physical anthropologist, palaeontologist and geologist.. Oakley, known for his work in the Fluorine absorption dating of fossils by fluorine content, [1] [2] was instrumental in the exposure [3] of the Piltdown Man hoax in the 1950s.
Keith was a strong proponent of the Piltdown Man. Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery, written by the anthropologist Frank Spencer after completing the research of Ian Langham (an Australian historian of science who suspected Keith, and died in 1984), explored the link between Keith and Charles Dawson and suggested it was Keith who prepared the fake ...
The Piltdown Man skull, a famous palaeoanthropological hoax. Calaveras Skull ("discovered" 1866), purported to prove that humans lived in North America as early as the Pliocene Epoch (5.33–2.58 MYA) Cardiff Giant ("discovered" 1869), carved gypsum statue presented as a petrified man, over 10 feet (3.0 m) tall
Hinton is among those associated with the Piltdown Man hoax, a composite of an altered human skull and ape jawbone planted, and subsequently 'discovered', at a dig in Piltdown, England, and presented as a missing link between man and ape. A trunk belonging to Hinton left in storage at the Natural History Museum and found in 1970 contained ...