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Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson (Revealing History)
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Product Description
The fascinating story of an archaeological hoaxer.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1059355 in Books
- Published on: 2004-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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The human and animal remains discovered at Piltdown, near Lewes in Sussex, almost 100 years ago were at the time hailed as the “missing link” between ape and man. It was not until 1953 that modern analysis conclusively revealed an ingenious hoax. The perpetrator was almost certainly the antiquarian excavator Charles Dawson who, as Miles Russell shows, was responsible for sixteen other archaeological forgeries during his lifetime.
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bournemouth University, Miles Russell is the author of three Tempus books, the latest on prehistoric Sussex—the setting for Charles Dawson’s archaeological crimes.
