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Sollas, W. J. 1911. Ancient hunters and their modern representatives. London: Macmillan and Co., xvi, 416 pp. (The opening paragraph of Chapter II: The Antiquity of Man, p. 29, neatly summarises the state of knowledge in late 1911 concerning man’s origins. The book appeared just a few months before Charles Dawson informed Smith Woodward of his discovery at Piltdown. Sollas writes: ‘The dawn of the human race is supposed to belong to a past more remote than the beginning of the Great Ice age; yet of the existence of man antecedent to that epoch not a vestige of evidence, forcible enough to compel universal belief, has up to the present time been discovered. Even Pithecanthropus, that singular ape-like form, which makes the nearest approach to the genus Homo, although referred by its discoverer to the Pliocene, has since been asserted on good authority to belong more probably to the Quaternary epoch.’) Sollas, W. J. 1913 (contribution to discussion in Dawson & Woodward 1913b) Sollas, W. J. 1915. Ancient hunters and their modern representatives. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan. (Piltdown, pp 49–56) Sollas, W. J. 1924. Ancient hunters and their modern representatives. 3rd ed. London: Macmillan. (In this edition Sollas included, for the first time, a note dismissing the Sherborne engraved bone as ‘a forgery perpetrated by some schoolboys’, p. 536 n. Smith Woodward had described it as an authentic Palaeolithic artefact in 1914. See Woodward 1914b, and Woodward 1926 for his response to Sollas’s assertion.) Sollas, W. J. 1926. The Palaeolithic drawing of a horse from Sherborne. Nature, 117, 233. (A response to Woodward 1926) Somerville, E. M. 1996. Piltdown reflections: a mirror for prehistory. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 134, 7–19. (An examination of the history of the Society’s relationship with the Piltdown discoveries) Sommer, M. 2004. Eoliths as evidence for human origins? The British context. History and Philosophy of Life Science, 26, 209–241. Spaulding, A. C. 1955. Further contributions to the solution of the Piltdown problem. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 13, 166–167. (A commentary on Weiner et al. 1955) Spencer, F. 1979. Aleš Hrdlička MD (1869‒1943): a chronicle of the life and work of an American physical anthropologist. London: University Microfilms International, 2 vols. Spencer, F. 1984. The Neandertals and their evolutionary significance: a brief historical survey. In: The origins of modern humans: a world survey of the fossil evidence / edited by F. H. Smith & F. Spencer. New York: Alan R. Liss, pp. 1–49. (Turritin cites pp. 21–34) Spencer, F. 1987. Ape jape: The Piltdown Inquest, by Charles Blinderman. New Scientist, 113 (5 Mar), 50–51. (An uncharitable review from one who at this time was preparing his own rival account of the Piltdown forgery. A few months later Blinderman offered to return the compliment by reviewing Spencer’s forthcoming book: see ‘Piltdown rivals’, New Scientist, 114, 7 May 1987, 67.) Spencer, F. 1988. Prologue to a scientific forgery: the British eolithic movement from Abbeville to Piltdown. In: Bones, bodies, behaviour: essays on biological anthropology / edited by G. W. Stocking. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 84–116. Spencer, F. 1990a. Piltdown: a scientific forgery. London, Oxford & New York: Natural History Museum Publications / Oxford University Press, xxvi, 272 pp. (A considerable amount of scholarly research is here weakened only by the final chapter in which the writer attempts to implicate Sir Arthur Keith as the forger following a line of enquiry developed by Ian Langham, whose papers, after his death in 1984, were passed to Frank Spencer because he had independently come to the same conclusion. Includes an introduction by Phillip V. Tobias. A number of lengthy reviews appeared: see Campbell 1991, Fagan 1991, G. A. Harrison 1990, J. Marks 1992, Shipman 1990, Zuckerman 1990b; for other rebuttals see Costello 1990b, Grigson 1990b, 1991, L. J. Keith 1990, Kennedy 1991, Langdon 1992a, A. Miles 1991, & Zuckerman 1990a. Turrittin 2006, 22–24, lists many more.) Spencer, F. (ed.) 1990b. The Piltdown papers: the correspondence and other documents relating to the Piltdown forgery, 1908–1955. London, Oxford & New York: Natural History Museum Publications / Oxford University Press, xii, 282 pp. (An essential reference tool for the Piltdown researcher, though now in need of expansion and revision, since not all of the relevant correspondence held at the NHM was included.)
Spencer, F. 1991a. The Piltdown mystery: an exchange. New York Review of Books, 38 (1/2) 17 Jan, 58. (Reply to Zuckerman) Spencer, F. 1991b. The Piltdown forgery. Times Literary Supplement, 18 Jan, 13. (Reply to Grigson 1990b) Spencer, F. 1991c. Piltdown remains. American Scientist, 79, 388. (Reply to Thomson 1991a) Spencer, F. 1992 (contribution to discussion in Tobias 1992c) Spencer, F. 1997. Piltdown. In: History of physical anthropology / edited by F. Spencer. New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 821‒825. Spencer, F. 2000. Piltdown. In: Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory / edited by E. Delson, I. Tattersall, J. V. Couvering & A. S. Brooks. New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 559-561. (Spencer died in 1999) Spencer, F. & Stringer, C. 1989. Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Piltdown. Archaeometry, 31 (2), 210. Spencer, F. (for obituary see Tobias 1999a, 1999b) Spurrell, H. G. F. 1917. Modern man and his forerunners. London: Bell, 192 pp. (Eoanthropus, p. 44, plate V) Stocking, G. W. Jr. 1992. Book review: [?Spencer 1990]. Isis, 83, 347–349. Stopford, J. S. B. (see under Dawson, W. R. 1938) Straker, E. 1931. Wealden iron. London: Bell. (Discusses possible ‘salting’ of an excavation at Beaufort Park, of which the author considers that Charles Dawson may have been the victim, pp. 335–337. Maresfield Forge map, p. 401; Ashburnham clock dial) Straus, W. L., Jr. 1954a. The great Piltdown hoax. Science, 119 (26 Feb), 265–269; reprinted in Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1954, 363–371. Straus, W. L., Jr. 1954b. Science news. Science, 120 (3 Sep), 366–367. Stringer, C. B. 1990a. The Piltdown con man. Guardian, 22 June, 28. Stringer, C. B. 1990b. Piltdown forgery. The Times, 28 June, 13. (A response to Levin 1990) Stringer, C. B. 1992 (contribution to discussion in Tobias 1992c) Stringer, C. B. 2003. Keeper country: Piltdown 2003. Set in Stone, 1 (4), 1–3. Avail on the web at: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/departments/palaeontology/newsletter-sis/assets/sis1_4.pdf Stringer, C. B. 2004a. Fake! British Archaeology, no. 74 (Jan), 13. Stringer, C. B. 2004b. Piltdown – the final answers? In: Geofakes, frauds and hoaxes, abstracts of a meeting organised by the History of Geology Group, under the aegis of the Geological Society of London, Burlington House, London, 22 October 2004, p. 6. (‘At least 25 men have since been accused of being involved in the [Piltdown] forgery, but Dawson has always been the prime candidate, and further evidence against him has continued to emerge. Recently, however, an alternative has come to the fore’ [i.e. Hinton]. See Stringer’s ‘Afterword: Piltdown 2003’ in the 50th anniversary reissue of Joseph Weiner’s The Piltdown Forgery, pp. 188–201.) Stringer, C. B. 2006. Homo britannicus: the incredible story of human life in Britain. London: Penguin Books, 242 pp. (Believes that the Piltdown ‘cricket-bat’ was planted by Martin Hinton as a warning to Dawson that someone was onto him, pp. 30–34. This seems to reflect the ‘official’ view from the Natural History Museum, of which Hinton was an employee. Such a view fails to explain why Hinton should have taken the trouble to authenticate the bone by covering it in sticky yellow clay from the bottom of the pit, and to have gone to the unnecessary length of planting smaller fragments of the same bone into the in situ clay.)
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