Documents
Ashley Montague. The Piltdown Mandible and Cranium American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1951)
disparity between thick skull and thin jaw
Kenneth P. Oakley. Fluorine and the Relative Dating of Bones
Advancement of Science (1948)
first test mistakenly unified cranium and jawbone
Kenneth P. Oakley. Some Applications of the Fluorine Test The Archaeological News Letter (1949)
test shows probability that cranium and mandible came from different individuals
Kenneth P. Oakley. Relative Dating of the Piltdown Skull
Advancement of Science (1950)
with note by Robt Broom attesting to legitimacy of Piltdown
Kenneth Oakley and C. R. Hoskins. New Evidence on the Antiquity of Piltdown
Man Nature (1950 )
"cranial bones and jaw-bone are of the same age"
chart analyzing fossil material from Piltdown
Piltdown Man Forgery. Jaw and Tooth of Modern Ape London Times (Nov. 1953)
H. de Vries and Kenneth Oakley. Radiocarbon Dating of the Piltdown Skull and Jaw Nature (1959) —
on Dyak source of jawbone and correction of earlier error
• W. S. Weiner, K. P. Oakley, Wilfred Le Gros Clark. The Solution of the Piltdown Problem (1953)
K. P. Oakley and J. S. Weiner, Chemical Examination of the Piltdown Implements. Nature (Dec. 1953)
J. S. Weiner and K. P. Oakley. The Piltdown Fraud: Available Evidence Reviewed American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1954)
• J. S. Weiner. The Full Extent. The Piltdown Forgery (1955)
Weiner, Oakley, Clark, et al. Further Contributions to the Solution of the Piltdown Problem + An Anatomical Study of the Piltdown Teeth and the So-called Turbinal Bone (by Clark) + The Composition of the Piltdown Hominid Remains (by Oakley) + The Black Coating on the Piltdown Canine (by A. E. A. Werner and R. J. Plesters + The Radioactivity of the Piltdown Fossils ( by S. H. U. Bowie and C. F. Davidson (1955)
Kenneth P. Oakley and J. S. Weiner. Piltdown Man American Scientist (Oct. 1955)
review of explorations in pit and later in laboratory
Joyce Emerson and J. S. Weiner. The Piltdown Mystery The Sunday Times (January 1955)
comprehenive review of find and their features
includes note from L. F. Saltzman. Piltdown Mystery The Times (January 1955)
Miles Burkett. Obituaries of the Piltdown Remains. Nature (April 1955). reviews of Further Contributions and Weiner’s The Piltdown Forgery Sir Wilfred Le Gros Clark. The Exposure of the Piltdown Forgery Roy al Institute of Great Britain Proceedings (May 1955) Malcolm Ashmore. Fraud by Numbers: Quantitative Rhetoric in the Piltdown Forgery Discovery (1995) a rare hostile appraisal of investigatory techniques conducted by Weiner, et al. account of why rational scientists believed in authenticity of Eoanthropus • H. DeVries and K. P. Oakley. Radiocarbon Dating of the Piltdown Skull and Jaw Nature (1959)flourine — oxygen — nitrogen comparisonsAshley Montagu + K. P. Oakley. Artificial Thickening of Bone and the Piltdown Skull Nature (1960) Montagu proposes way Piltdown cranium might have been artificially thickened; Oakley denies it K. P. Oakley. The Piltdown Skull Letter to New Scientist (1968) re. Rosen’s The jilting of AthenaK. P. Oakley and Colin P. Groves. Piltdown Man: The Realization of Fraudulence Science 1970re. Miller• K. P. Oakley. The Piltdown problem reconsidered Antiquity (1976)• K. P. Oakley. Suspicions about Piltdown Man New Scientist (June 1979)J. S. Weiner. Piltdown Hoax: New Light. Nature (January 1979)K. P. Oakley. Piltdown man Letter to New Scientist (Nov. 1981)J. S. Weiner and the exposure of the Piltdown forgery Antiquity (1983)Committing the investigation1 fluorine analysis 2 radioactivity of elephant tooth fragment 3 examination of cricket bat - cut after fossilization (authentic ancestor would have been unable to do this, though able to cut femur bone) 4 microscope on molar occlusion — see file marks 5 hand to hold skull fragments — heavy --- jaw light 6 examination for carbon — nothing in skull, still there in bony jaw 7 x—ray canine tooth -— find alloy at tip — old surface, young root Vandyke brownVIII Commentary on Exposé Scientific and popularMichael Hammond. A Framework of Plausibility for an Anthropological Forgery: The Piltdown Case Anthropology (1949) Sherwood Washurn. The Piltdown Hoax American Anthropologist December (1953)
+ Robert W. Ehrich and Gerald M. Henderson.,Concerning the Piltdown Hoax and the Rise of a New Dogmatism American Anthropologist (June 1954)
+ Washburn, Reply American Anthropologist
Robert F. Heizer and Sherburne F. Cook. Comments on the Piltdown Remains
American Anthropologist (1954)
Earnest Hooton. Comments on the Piltdown Affair. American Anthropologist (1954)
• William L. Straus. Jr. The Great Piltdown Hoax Smithsonian Institution (1955)
good on Miller and history of exposure
Francis Vere. Innocent Dawson. The Piltdown Fantasy (1955)
Francis Vere. Scientific Enthusiasm at Piltdown, Java and Pekin
Lessons of Piltdown (1959)
Vere sees Piltdown as an example of weak human evolutionary theory
Ashley Montagu. The Piltdown Mandible and Cranium American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1951)
Montagu. Artificial Thickening of Bone and the Piltdown Skull
Nature (1960)
Montagu. The Piltdown Nasal Turbinate and Bone Implement:. Some Questions Science (1954)
exploring this part of the fraud reveals further evidence that the hoaxer was not a smart
scientist
• William Howells. Piltdown Man: His Rise and Fall The Story of Human Evolution (1959)
• The Piltdown Man Hoax British Museum (Natural History) (1973)
Wilton Marion Krogman. The Planned Planting of Piltdown: Who? Why?
in Washburn and McCown, Human Evolution: Biosocial Perspectives 1978
why were good scientists fooled?
• Piltdown Man Forgery Jaw and Tooth of Modern Ape "Elaborate Hoax"
London Times (Nov. 21, 1953) + More Doubts on Piltdown Man
Nov. 23 + Early Man Nov. 24 + Piltdown Man Hoax Protest against "Attacks"
Nov. 26
• Features of Piltdown Skull "Deliberate Fakes."Lower Jaw that of Chimpanzee? Manchester Guardian (Nov. 1953)
Piltdown Man Hoax Is Exposed: Jaw an Ape's, Skull Fairly Recent
John Hillary New York Times (Nov. 1953)
Piltdown: How Fake Was Found The Observer (Nov. 1953)
Parliamentary Debate on Piltdown
House of Commons Official Report Session 1953-54
Piltdown: How Fake Was Found The Observer (Nov. 1953)
Piltdown Hoax Clumsy, Fresh Evidence Shows. (1954)
unlike most appraisals, claim that hoaxer was not an expert
Sonia Cole. The Piltdown Puzzle Counterfeit (1955)
timetable and definitions
Glyn Daniels. Editorial Notes Antiquity (1956)
Montagu vs. Oakley on thickness of skull, thinness of jaw
William Howells. Piltdown Man: His Rise and Fall Mankind in the Making:
The Story of Human Evolution (1959)
Montagu. The Piltdown Hoax (1971) (1960, Introduction to Physical
Anthropology )
Harry Shapiro. Piltdown and Peking. Peking Man (1974)
S. L. Washburn and Ruth Moore. The Thinker A Study of Human Evolution 1980 ed.
• John Reader. Piltdown Man Missing Links (1981)
Broad, William, and Nicholas Wade. Betrayers of the Truth. (1982)
expectation can initiate incorrect thesis
Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall. On Piltdown The Myths of Human Evolution (1982)
G. A. Harrison. J. S. Weiner and the exposure of the Piltdown forgery. Antiquity (March 1983)
identifies J. S. Weiner as originator of investigation
• Charles Blinderman. Piltdown Proves a Point The Scientist (Feb. 1987)
Peter J. Bowler. Review of Piltdown Inquest Isis (1987)
Roger Lewin. Chain of Fraud Bones of Contention (1987)
Ian Haywood. The Missing Link: Archaeological Forgery and Fictions of the First Human
Frank Spencer. Beyond a reasonable doubt? Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery (1990)
Internet:
Blat,. Piltdown-Music
Robert Todd Carroll. Piltdown Hoax The Skeptic's Dictionary (1996)
Richard Harter. The Bogus Bones Caper (1997)