Author: Spencer, Frank
Title: Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery
Description: London / Oxford, Oxford University Press, (1990). orig.boards. 25x18cm, xxvi,272 pp, Light binding corner bumps.. Textual photos & tables.. Minor rubbing. Some light top page-edge spotting. VG. dustwrapp ¶ Contents: Introduction to a Forgery; Dramatis Personae; The Search for Tertiary Man: A Prologue to Piltdown; Piltdown: a Prima Facie Case; Bones, Stones & Egos : the Piltdown Debates 1913; Bones: the Piltdown Debates 1914-1917; Steps to the Scaffold: the Piltdown Controversy 1918-1950; Scotoanthropus Fraudator; Black Knights & Arrant Knaves; Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?.

Keywords: History of Science, Scientific Forgery, Hominid Evolution, Anthropology, Piltdown Man, Forgeries, Paleontology, Palaeontology, Biology