Msg #: 4829 of 5260                  Area: ORIGINS Subboard
 From: Richard Sharpe                Sent: 04-23-94 22:46
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   Re: Piltdown Hoaxer Unmasked?   Status: Public
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From: sharpe@nmesis (Richard Sharpe)
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: Piltdown Hoaxer Unmasked?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <1994Apr23.224656.7829@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 22:46:56 GMT

In the Jan/Feb 1994 edition of _The Sciences_, published by the New York
Academy of Sciences, is an article by Phillip V Tobias (Emeritus
Professor of Anatomy and Human Bilogy and Paleoanthropology Research
Unit at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg).

In it he names Dawson and Keith as co-hoaxers, with Dawson as the man on
the spot, and Keith as the man with access to bones, stone tools, and
knowledge to stain the bones etc to look like they came from the
road-side quarries.

I will leave interrested readers to chase up the article and read it,
but I note that immediately before it is a one page article (well two
with the graphic) by S J Gould, who has also written on the Piltdown
Hoax.

I checked my S J Gould books, and could only find an essay in _The
Panda's Thumb_, _Piltdown Revisited_, Page 92, where Gould thinks that
on the best evidence, Dawson acted alone, but he does state that there
are other lines of thought.

It would be interesting to know which other of Gould's books contain
articles on this question to see what else he has said on it.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe,  sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com,  Ph: 61-8-235-7237