Unraveling Piltdown:: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution

Walsh, Evangelist John

ISBN 10: 0679444440 / ISBN 13: 9780679444442

Published by Random House, Australia, 1996

About this Item

Small ownership sticker, otherwise a very good copy. In 1913 amateur fossil hunter and archaeologist Charles Dawson found in a gravel pit the cranium and jaw of an entirely new species of humanoid, which became known as Piltdown man, which caused headlines worldwide as the missing link between man and ape. In 1952, it was exposed as a hoax. With eight pages of photos, this book is a wonderful detective story, and the first examination the convincingly fingers the perpetrator.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unraveling Piltdown:: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution
• Publisher: Random House, Australia
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679444440
• ISBN 13: 9780679444442
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crime
  • Science
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

A close-up look at the twentieth-century's most infamous scientific hoax examines the paleontological find that initiated the controversy, explains how the hoax was perpetrated, and offers a convincing argument about the perpetrator. 15,000 first printing.

From the Inside Flap

eur fossil hunter and archaeologist Charles Dawson found in a gravel pit the cranium and jaw of an entirely new species of humanoid, which became known as Piltdown man, which caused headlines worldwide as the missing link between man and ape. In 1952, it was exposed as a hoax. With eight pages of photos, this book is a wonderful detective story, and the first examination the convincingly fingers the perpetrator.