Allan Shumaker Wrote:
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> "Should I crank up my hissing voice for this one?"
> You lost me!
>
> I watched it while surfing the web. Like Peski
> said not any earthshaking breakthroughs, but it is
> well worth watching. It has quite a bit of info on
> how some of the initial discoveries were received,
> how Dubois suffered in the Dutch East Indies and
> how Dart's Taung child was shelved for a
> generation because the English (and apparently
> everyone else) were captivated by Piltdown.

As I understand it, it was mainly the British. And by the late 1930s, evidently even the English didn't pay much attention to it.


These early articles debunked it:

G. S. Miller, "The jaw of Piltdown man", Smithsonian Misc. Coll
(November) _65_, no. 12, 1915; "The Piltdown jaw",
Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. _1_, 25, 1918.

A. Hrdlicka, "The Piltdown jaw", Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. _5_, 337, 1922;
"Dimensions of the first and second molars, with their bearing on
the Piltdown jaw and man's phylogeny", ibid. _6_, 195, 1923.

F. Weidenreich, "Dentition of Sinanthropus Pekinensis: a comparative
odontography of the hominids", _Paleontol. Sinica n s D. No. 10, 1937.


Doug Weller

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