Piltdown Man

The Secret Life of Charles Dawson & the World's Greatest Archaeological Hoax

• Author(s): Miles Russell,
• Publisher: Tempus
• Pages: 288
• ISBN_10: 0752425722
  ISBN_13: 9780752425726
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General , Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists , History / Europe / Great Britain / General , Nature / Fossils , Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects , Social Science / Archaeology , True Crime / Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions ,

Description:... The human and animal remains discovered almost 100 years ago at Piltdown, near Lewes in Sussex were at the time hailed as the "missing link" between ape and man. It was not until 1953 that modern analysis conclusively revealed an ingenious hoax. The perpetrator was almost certainly the antiquarian excavator Charles Dawson who, as Miles Russell shows, was responsible for 16 other archaeological forgeries during his lifetime.