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	Piltdown Man Summary
		The so-called Piltdown Man was fragments of a skull and jaw bone collected in the early years of the twentieth century from a gravel pit at Piltdown, a village near Uckfield, in the English county of Sussex.
		Piltdown man had for some time become regarded as an aberration that was entirely inconsistent with the mainstream thrust of human evolution as demonstrated by fossil hominids found elsewhere.
		Piltdown Man was shown to be a composite forgery, part-ape and part-man. It consisted of a human skull of medieval age, the 500-year-old lower jaw of a Sarawak orangutan and chimpanzee fossil teeth.
	www.bookrags.com /Piltdown_Man (1569 words)

	Piltdown Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The so-called Piltdown Man was fragments of a skull and jaw bone collected in the early years of the twentieth century from a gravel pit at Piltdown, a village near Uckfield, in the English county of Sussex.
		Piltdown man had for some time become regarded as an aberration that was entirely inconsistent with the mainstream thrust of human evolution as demonstrated by fossil hominids found elsewhere.
		Piltdown Man was shown to be a composite forgery, part-ape and part-man. It consisted of a human skull of medieval age, the 500-year-old lower jaw of a Sarawak orangutan and chimpanzee fossil teeth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piltdown_Man (1299 words)

	The Piltdown man
		The case of the Piltdown man is the case of one of the most prominent scientific frauds of this century.
		The story of the Piltdown man begins in 1856, when the first fragments of a hominid from the Pleistocene epoch were discovered in the Neander valley, Germany.
		Piltdown II and the sterling reputation of Woodward convinced much of the opposition and a great deal of work was devoted to unraveling evolution based on these fragments.
	www1.umn.edu /scitech/piltdown.htm (1502 words)

	Piltdown Man
		The 'discovery' of Piltdown Man was a famous hoax in the history of the science of archaeology.
		The Piltdown discoveries were initially dismissed by some scientists as they held that the skull fragments were self evidently from a different species than the jaw fragments but an acceptance of the claims of 'Piltdown Man' to be seen as something of a missing link in human evolution did take hold of the popular imagination.
		Finally, in 1953, Piltdown Man was established as being a deliberate hoax, this came about during an international conference of paleontologists in London where a range of fossil remains were on display and where the suspicions of some of the delegates were aroused by the pattern of wear evident on the Piltdown teeth.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /archaeology/piltdown_man.html (681 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Piltdown Man is revealed as fake
		The Piltdown fossils, including a portion of the skull, a jawbone, and a few teeth, were found in 1911 and 1912.
		This "Piltdown Man" was believed by many to be "the earliest Englishman," and in fact, the missing link between apes and humans.
		He too became convinced the teeth had been purposely changed to fit the Piltdown Man. Weiner and Oakley now undertook new chemical analyses, including an improved fluorine test, and found that the jaw and teeth were not the same age as the skull and were not even fossils, just old bones.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do53pi.html (968 words)

	Piltdown Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Piltdown Man is the most famous scientific fraud of the last hundred years.
		Piltdown man used to be mentioned in all lists of fossils, but other than that, it was pretty much ignored by (say) American scientists.
		Piltdown man used to be used as evidence that early Man developed intelligence before developing in certain other ways.
	www.don-lindsay-archive.org /creation/piltdown.html (437 words)

	Piltdown man - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Piltdown Man, first announced in 1912 and proven fraudulent in 1953-4, is perhaps the most celebrated hoax in all of paleontology.
		While it is as yet unclear who perpetrated this hoax, the bogus Piltdown Man specimens themselves indicate that whoever created them, he or she had all the knowledge and skills necessary to fabricate a fossil that would fool anyone armed with the knowledge of 1912.
		Creationists never tire of reminding their audiences of Piltdown Man. This would not be objectionable in and of itself, except that they also insist on lying about it every time.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php?title=Piltdown_man&redirect=no (169 words)

	The Piltdown man
		Eoanthropus dawsoni, or Piltdown man, was found in a gravel pit at Piltdown in Sussex, south-west England, in 1912 by Charles Dawson.
		For 40 years Piltdown man, with his huge, humanoid skull and ape-like jaw, remained on display in what is now the Natural History Museum in London as an example of the elusive "missing link" between humanity and its primate ancestors.
		In Piltdown, every single fossil was diagnostic of a species and they were all small, so they were all bits that would fit in someone’s pocket, or trouser turn-up or whatever.
	www.meta-religion.com /Paranormale/Frauds/piltdown_man.htm (498 words)

	Piltdown Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Piltdown man had a large cranial space, a simian jaw but humanoid teeth.
		In1953 Piltdown man was revealed as a hoax by Wiener, Le Gros Clark and Oakley.
		By this time Piltdown man had been largely ignored and marginalized as more discoveries were made and the remains fitted in less and less with the developing theory.
	www.chm.bris.ac.uk /webprojects2002/lhomer/Webpage/piltdown.htm (438 words)

	Human Ancestors Hall: The Piltdown Scanadal
		Many scientists and thinkers of the day took this notion a step further, proposing that man, too, had evolved through various stages toward a perfect human form, which just so happened to be western European (see our FAQ on the concept of race in paleoanthropology).
		Piltdown was pushed further and further to the side as discoveries were made, particularly in Africa, of early humans that contradicted the large brain/ape-like jaw combination found in Piltdown.
		The implication of Piltdown for science is not an important triumph over a forgery; it took science four decades to look through a microscope to see that the teeth had been filed and painted.
	www.mnh.si.edu /anthro/humanorigins/ha/pilt.html (1014 words)

	Piltdown hoax
		Piltdown was an archaeological site in England where in 1908 and 1912 human, ape and other mammal fossils were found together.
		Since there was a pre-conceived notion that man's brain must have developed to its human size before other changes occurred in human structure, a human cranium with an ape's jaw didn't arouse as much suspicion as it would today.
		Because of the public nature of science and the universal application of its methods, and because of the fact that the majority of scientists are not crusaders for their own untested or untestable prejudices, as many pseudoscientists are, whatever errors are made by scientists are likely to be discovered by other scientists.
	www.skepdic.com /piltdown.html (1367 words)

	THE STORY OF PILTDOWN MAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But the Piltdown hoax was the most shaking of the exposes when it finally occurred, due to the fact that, for decades, Piltdown Man had been proclaimed as the grand proof that man evolved from apes.
		As for the bones of Piltdown Man? Too many people were finding fault with them, so they were carefully placed under lock and key in the British Museum.
		Piltdown Man was fraud from start to finish!"—Alden P. Armagnac, "The Piltdown* Hoax," Reader's Digest, October 1956, p.
	www.pathlights.com /ce_encyclopedia/13anc08.htm (2599 words)

	Reasons Why the Piltdown Canine Tooth and Mandible Could Not Belong to Piltdown Man
		Note the difference in the shape and direction of the transverse section at the cervical margin of the root: the major axis of the Piltdown tooth is in the mesio-distal direction, whereas in the human tooth it is in the opposite or labio-lingual direction.
		Whereas in man there is an interval of about six years between the eruption of the first and second molars, in the apes the second molar comes into wear soon after the first molar.
		The deduction made from the character of the lingual facet that the tooth was associated with a fairly wide diastema and with the anthropoid and non-human type of premaxilla, and for this reason did not belong to the human skull, was confirmed by mounting it in the ape skull.
	black.clarku.edu /~piltdown/map_receptionnotfav/canine_mandible.html (7035 words)

	Piltdown Man
		Piltdown Man consisted of two human skulls, an orangutan jaw, an elephant molar, a hippopotamus tooth, and a canine tooth from a chimpanzee.
		The Piltdown remains were purposefully scattered around a quarry in Piltdown, England, so that they could be "discovered" later as evidence for evolution and the development of man from ape.
		The Piltdown Man hoax is thought to have been perpetrated by Charles Dawson, an archaeologist, geologist and fossil collector for the British Museum.
	www.allaboutcreation.org /piltdown-man.htm (493 words)

	AllRefer.com - Piltdown man (Human Evolution) - Encyclopedia
		Piltdown man, name given to human remains found during excavations (1908–15) at Piltdown, Sussex, England, by Charles Dawson.
		Since they were found with remains of mammals of the Lower Pleistocene epoch, they were supposed to belong to a "Piltdown man" who lived 200,000 to 1,000,000 years ago.
		In 1996, on the basis of evidence found in a trunk in the British Museum, it was suggested that the zoologist Martin A. Hinton planted the remains to embarrass Woodward.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Piltdown.html (309 words)

	Piltdown Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1912, the discovery of two skulls in the Piltdown Quarry of Sussex, England appeared to be that very thing; a small skull with the prominent brow of prehistoric man combined with the jawline of an ape.
		Still, the Piltdown man kept his honored place at the Paleontological table, even though more and more folks started to place it in the margins and not mention it too much in their writings.
		However, for the relatively brief time that the Piltdown Man enjoyed legitimacy, a number of artistic renderings had been made to demonstrate how he looked and how he lived, one of the most celebrated and then reviled finds in the race to prove evolution.
	www.rotten.com /library/hoaxes/piltdown-man (389 words)

	Piltdown Man
		The idea of a Piltdown Man at the end of the Ice Age was extremely difficult to understand, but the idea of a fossil ape of that age in England was equally impossible to accept.
		The animal remains from Piltdown have been [582] famous because they include the remains of a rare type of elephant, of mastodon and of a rare type of rhinoceros, known to have become extinct in Britain early in the Ice Age.
		The "second Piltdown skull" was apparently made up by placing an artificially abraded molar tooth of an orang-utan with a piece of exceptionally thick forehead (frontal) bone) evidently part of the first skull that had been held in reserve, and a scrap of the back of another skull stained in the same way.
	www.clarku.edu /~piltdown/map_gen_hist_surveys/piltman_oaklywiener.html (4218 words)

	The Ape-Men III
		Piltdown man (Eoanthropus dawsoni) is one of the shameful patchworks of evolutionists.
		Piltdown man was exhibited in museums and pictures of him were studied in textbooks for several decades.
		It is surely not a correct deed to charge a dead man who cannot defend himself, but everything clearly points to the fact that he was responsible for the fraud.
	www.cryingvoice.com /Evolution/ApeMen3.html (520 words)

	Piltdown Man
		Piltdown man is one of the most famous frauds in the history of science.
		Piltdown man was not an ancestor; it was not a case of erroneous interpretation; it was a case of outright deliberate fraud.
		Piltdown man has been the focus of many myths and misconceptions, many of which are assiduously repeated by creationists for whom Piltdown man is a popular club with which to assail evolution.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/piltdown.html (9516 words)

	BBC - History - Piltdown Man: Britain's Greatest Hoax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Piltdown Man fooled the scientific community for some forty years before the hoax was finally discovered.
		The Piltdown Man skull, on show at the Natural History Museum on 3 December 1953, after the hoax had been discovered ©
		Dawson was an amateur archaeologist, said to have stumbled across the skull in a gravel pit at Barkham Manor, Piltdown, in Sussex.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/archaeology/piltdown_man_01.shtml (222 words)

	Creationist Arguments: Piltdown Man
		No creationist who discusses the human fossil record avoids mentioning Piltdown Man. Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni) was discovered in England by an amateur, Charles Dawson, between 1908 and 1912.
		In 1953 Piltdown was discovered to be a hoax, consisting of a modern human skull and an orang-utan jaw.
		Well before then, Piltdown had become a puzzling anomaly when compared to all other hominid fossils, and the scientific community was relieved to be able to forget about it.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/a_piltdown.html (397 words)

	PILTDOWN MAN, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		scientific hoax involving the supposed discovery near Piltdown, England, of an apelike fossil ancestral to modern humans.
		Piltdown man was assigned a genus, Eoanthropus (“dawn man”), and a species, dawsoni, named after the discoverer, Charles Dawson (1864–1916), an amateur naturalist.
		In 1952, Ralph Waldo Ellison published his first and only novel, Invisible Man, a stark account of racial alienation that begins with the immortal lines:.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=219284 (623 words)

	Piltdown hoax
		Piltdown was an archaeological site in England where in 1908 and 1912 human, ape and other mammal fossils were found together.
		Since there was a pre-conceived notion that man's brain must have developed to its human size before other changes occurred in human structure, a human cranium with an ape's jaw didn't arouse as much suspicion as it would today.
		Because of the public nature of science and the universal application of its methods, and because of the fact that the majority of scientists are not crusaders for their own untested or untestable prejudices, as many pseudoscientists are, whatever errors are made by scientists are likely to be discovered by other scientists.
	skepdic.com /piltdown.html (1356 words)

	The Piltdown Man
		Woodward argued that it was the skull of a man, whom he called Piltdown man (after the location where it had been found).
		But as more skeletons of early man were found, it became clear that the Piltdown Man was radically unlike anything else in the fossil record.
		Whoever perpetrated the crime, it is considered to be one of the most damaging scientific hoaxes of all time, because it set the development of evolutionary theory back for years while researchers labored pointlessly to integrate a fake skull into the fossil record.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /piltdown.html (940 words)

	A century of fraud
		In fact, historical revisionists claim that the Piltdown hoax is evidence of the strength of evolutionary ‘science’ because it is self-correcting—given time, scientists will weed out mistakes and errors.
		For those who believe in the biblical account of history and human origins, the Piltdown man fraud could be considered ‘the greatest example of evolutionary gullibility of the 20
		At the Scopes ‘monkey trial,’ Piltdown man was the main evidence for human evolution.
	www.answersingenesis.org /docs2003/1118piltdown.asp (506 words)

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