UNRAVELLING PILTDOWN, THE SCIENCE FRAUD OF THE CENTURY AND IT’S SOLUTION

John Evangelist Walsh, TSP large format paperback 1997.

In 1913 an amateur fossil hunter and antiquarian named Charles Dawson found in a gravel pit in England parts of the skull of an entirely new species of pre-human.

The discovery, soon known as Piltdown Man, caused headlines worldwide trumpeting the claim that the evolutionary ‘ missing link ’ between ape and man had been found.

Controversy quickly arose, with many scientists charging that the jaw and cranium were not related and must have come from two different creatures, an ancient man and an ancient ape. But the believers prevailed for forty years Piltdown Man held his place – though a troubled place – in the fast developing evolutionary scheme.

In 1953, using advanced techniques for dating fossils, a team of English scientists dramatically exposed Piltdown Man as nothing more than an amazing fraud, an ingenious but undoubted forgery.

In this book, the author tells the whole story and looks at the flood of printed material on the subject. He concludes by convincingly exposing the true culprit and how it was done!

The book is in very good condition.