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| | What's New at the National Anthropological Archives (August 2002) |
 | | The NAA is pleased to announce its acquisition of the professional papers and correspondence of Frank Spencer (1941-1999), who held a chair in physical anthropology at Queens College of the City University of New York. |
 | | Spencer was perhaps best known for his scholarly account of the infamous Piltdown hoax, in which an orangutan mandible, human cranium, and stone tools, purported evidence of a new line of hominids, were cunningly arranged in a gravel pit near Sussex, England, then "discovered" by Charles Dawson, a lawyer and amateur geologist. |
 | | In Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery (1990), Spencer presented a scholarly history of the hoax and proposed that the fraud was concocted by Dawson with the assistance of Sir Arthur Keith of the Royal College of Surgeons. |
| www.nmnh.si.edu /naa/whatsnew2002_08.htm (2306 words) |
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