Bibliography - British Geological Survey

Woodward, A. S. 1933. The second Piltdown skull. Nature, 131 (18 Feb), no. 3303, 242. (Short letter
drawing attention to the existence of a postcard from Charles Dawson, dated 30 July 1915, recording his
discovery of a molar tooth of Eoanthropus at an unnamed site, believed to be Sheffield Park. The letter
follows doubts expressed by Dr Aleš Hrdlički in 1930. The postcard was deposited with the Natural History
Museum and is reproduced as a frontispiece in Spencer 1990b.)
Woodward, A. S. 1934. What the Dawn-Man was like. Wonders of the Past, no. 21, 22 Mar, 490–493.
Woodward, A. S. 1935. Recent progress in the study of early man. Report, British Association for the
Advancement of Science, Norwich, 1935, 129‒142.
Woodward, A. S. 1938. The Piltdown bone implement. Nature, 141 (11 June), 1059. (Further to the letter
by Moir 1938 in response to Breuil’s conclusion that the cut marks on the Piltdown implement are the result
of gnawing by a rodent mammal, and not by man, Woodward draws attention to the fossil skull of an extinct
panda which provides a fine example of gnawing by rodents and is exhibited in the Natural History Museum,
not far from the Piltdown implement. ‘It is therefore easy to compare the work of rodents with that ascribed
to man.’)
Woodward, A. S. 1944. The geographical distribution of ancestral man. Geological Magazine, 81 (2),
49‒57. (‘The latest studies of fossil Mammals appear to show that the Upper Pliocene and Pleistocene
mammalian faunas of Europe were chiefly immigrants from the Asiatic region... So far as the facts are
known, they favour the idea that central Asia north of the Himalayan Range is the area where Man most
likely evolved.’ Woodward goes on to discuss the work of Dr. W. D. Matthew (1915, revised 1939) who put
forward the view that evolutionary centres must have been surrounded by rings of successive forms which
had come into being, the earliest pushed to the outermost limit, the latest nearest the centre. ‘Each of these
forms would presumably survive longest at the outer limit of its range, where it avoided later competitors.’
Woodward does not consider Australopithecus or other southern African human-like apes as ancestral to
modern man. ‘Equally remote from the presumed Asiatic centre is the fossil skull from Piltdown, Sussex.
Like the ground-apes of South Africa, this still remains an isolated discovery.’ He thinks it resembles the
Chinese Sinanthropus, and in some respects Neanderthal man, but yet is unique. ‘The relationship of
Piltdown man to the other early human races is indeed still uncertain... The Piltdown skull therefore may
perhaps indicate that before the type of modern man became fixed there was more than one approach to it
among the evolving ape-ancestors.’)
Woodward, A. S. 1948. The earliest Englishman. London: Watts & Co., 118 pp, 3 plates. (Includes a
foreword by Sir Arthur Keith. The work was brought to completion by Maud Woodward, the author’s wife,
following his death in 1944. Recounts the story of the discovery of the Piltdown finds; describes the
Piltdown gravel and its flints, fossils and manmade tools; speculates on the mode of life of Piltdown Man,
and discusses the anatomical remains in some detail as well as the contemporary fauna; considers the
evolution of man in the context of the Piltdown finds.)
Woodward, A. S. (see also: Anon. 1914b; Dawson, C.; Given, J. C. M. 1914; Harris, W. E.; White 1926;
for biographical notices and obituary see: Anon. 1935; Cooper, C. F. 1945; Woodward, H. 1915; also
personal remarks by Keith 1950)
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Wright, R. V. S. 1992 (contribution to discussion in Tobias 1992c)
Wright, S. 2000. Charles Dawson 1864–1916. Hindsight: Journal of the Uckfield and District Preservation
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Young, S. A. 2001. Edward T. Hall. Nature, 413 (11 Oct), 592–593. (Professor ‘Teddy’ Hall, 1924–2001,
was a scientist who worked with developing new methods to locate, date and authenticate ancient objects.
He applied X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to the Piltdown remains in 1953. An obituary also appeared in
the Daily Telegraph, 17 Aug, p. 27.)