Bibliography - British Geological Survey

were wrong in saying that Piltdown Man represented a single creature, and that Dawson had been used by
them as a scapegoat to conceal their own errors. There was also an element of self denial—if Piltdown
Man’s teeth had been artificially altered, it would negate more than 15 years of research into developing a
method of distinguishing between the teeth of fossil apes and men, in which Marston had used Piltdown as
his main example.)
Turrittin, T. H. 2006. An annotated bibliography of the Piltdown Man forgery, 1953‒2005. PalArch’s
Journal of Archaeology of Northwest Europe, 1 (1), 1‒50. (This bibliography, which includes an overview
and commentary (it is not annotated in the usual sense), focuses on relevant literature written since the
exposure of the forgery in 1953. It covers predominantly English and North American material drawn from
academic journals, books, newspapers, magazines, broadcast media and a selection of World Wide Web
pages. The bibliography is freely available on the Internet in PDF format. In his ‘A Piltdown Man reading
list’ (Mar 2006, Richard Harter’s World), Turrittin expresses his personal conviction that Dawson was the
sole perpetrator of the fraud.)
Underwood, A. S. 1913. The Piltdown skull. British Journal of Dental Science, 56, 650–652. (Results of
X-ray analysis of the Piltdown mandible and teeth)
Underwood, A. S. 1913b (contribution to discussion in Dawson & Woodward 1913b)
Underwood, A. S. 1916. [Discussion of W. C. Lyne 1916]. Proceedings of the Royal Medical Society, 9,
55–56.
Vallois, H. V. 1949. L’origine de l’Homo sapiens. Compte rendus hebdomadaires des séances de
l’Académie des sciences, 228 (11), 949‒951. (Including a discussion of the position of Piltdown and
Swanscombe)
Vallois, H. V. 1952. Monophyletism and polyphyletism in man. South African Journal of Science, 49,
69‒79.
Vallois, H. V. 1953. La solution de l’énigme de Piltdown. L’Anthropologie, 57, 562‒567. (Essentially
derived from Weiner et al. 1953)
Vallois, H. V. 1954a. Encore la fraude de Piltdown. L’Anthropologie, 58, 353‒356.
Vallois, H. V. (see also under Boule 1946, 1957)
Vere, F. [Apr] 1955. The Piltdown fantasy. London: Cassell & Company, xvii, 120 pp. (Francis Vere, actual
name F. Bannister, lived or lodged in the Piltdown area and was well acquainted with Mabel Kenward of
Barkham Manor. His book, published shortly after Weiner’s, is a stout defence of Dawson, who he believed
had been used as a scapegoat by the scientific establishment. Weiner’s insistence that the original cranial
fragments were fraudulently introduced along with everything else, in spite of Mabel’s recollection to the
contrary, was a source of provocation to Vere, and later to Bowden and Booher. Vere’s version of events at
Piltdown is somewhat naive. See comments by Hillaby 1973. See also notes by Turrittin 2006, 29.)
Vere, F. 1959. Lessons of Piltdown: a study in scientific enthusiasm at Piltdown, Java and Pekin. Stoke,
Hayling Island, Hants: Evolution Protest Movement, 51 pp. (Essentially a restatement of his defence of
Dawson against the implied accusations made by Weiner in his book The Piltdown forgery. Discusses the
‘coconut’ story at some length.)
Vincent, J. B. 1999. Piltdown Man: combining the instruction of scientific ethics and qualitative analysis.
Journal of Chemical Education, 76 (Nov), 1501–1502.
Vines, G. 2003. Toad in the hole. New Scientist, 179 (9 Aug), 50‒51.
Vogel, J. C. & Waterbolk, H. T. 1964. Gronïngen radiocarbon dates. Radiocarbon, 6, 368. (A re-analysis
of the Piltdown jaw and cranium has reaffirmed the original findings of De Vries & Oakley 1959)
Vram, U. G. 1913. Le reconstruzioni dell’ Eoanthropus Dawsoni, Woodward. Bollettino della Società
Zoologica Italiana, ser. 3, 2, 192–198.