Chapter ID: CBB000042476

Prologue to a scientific forgery: The British eolithic movement from Abbeville to Piltdown (1988)

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Description “The present essay seeks to explain the particular configuration of the Piltdown assemblage, and to examine briefly the broader significance of the forgery in relation to the mainstream of paleoanthropological science during the first half of the 20th century.”


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Book Stocking, George W., Jr. (1988) Bones, bodies, behavior: Essays on biological anthropology. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Spencer, Frank
Hochadel, Oliver
Amy Way
Wheelhouse, Frances
Walsh, John Evangelist
Van Riper, Anthony Bowdoin
Journals
Current Anthropology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Science as Culture
Natural History
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Antiquity
Publishers
Natural History Museum, Oxford University Press
University of Wisconsin at Madison
University of Chicago Press
Transpareon Press
Rodopi
Random House
Concepts
Human paleontology
Paleoanthropology
Human evolution
Museums
Fossils
Great Britain, colonies
People
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
Keith, Arthur
Dubois, Eugène
Lyell, Charles
Kohl-Larsen, Ludwig
Gibert, Josep
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
British Isles
Catalonia (Spain)
Australia
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