Defending
DAWSON
Defense
F. J. M. Postlethwaite, Piltdown Man London Times November 1953, Dawson "Too honest" to be hoaxer
Francis Vere, "Innocent Dawson" The Piltdown Fantasy 1955
Francis Vere, Scientific Enthusiasm at Piltdown, Java and Pekin Lessons of Piltdown 1959
A. P. Chamberlain, The Piltdown 'forgery' New Scientist 28 November 1968, This cousin of Dawson points out that Dawson had neither the time nor the expertise to do it.
R. Essex, A Hoax That Grew Kent and Sussex Journal, 1955, cousin of Dawson witness to Dawson's honesty and culpability of "X"
Peter Costello, The Piltdown hoax reconsidered Antiquity 1985