The Clark University Piltdown Plot Project
In the late 1990’s a group at Clark University led by Charles Blinderman and David Joyce put together a
site called the
Piltdown Plot Project. Charles Blinderman was the author of
The Piltdown Inquest.
Blinderman and Joyce were both professors at Clark University.
The site, which is quite extensive, contains approximately two hundred web pages that are copies of original
documents, and copies of two books, Blinderman’s
The Piltdown Inquest,
and Arthur Smith Woodward’s
The Earliest Englishman.
The site is a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to reconstruct the history of the Piltdown Hoax, its exposure,
and the flurries of speculation about the possible culprit.
It must be said, however, that the selected materials are quite
uneven in quality and relevance, and that the site is curiously
incomplete. It appears that the construction of the site was
abandoned before it was completed. Unfortunately the site seems
to lack pages that describe the project, its aims, and the means
used. One can only speculate as to the details. The seems
appropriate; the Piltdown Man hoax has always been enveloped in
speculation.
Given that Blinderman was the author of one of the Piltdown books, it seems likely that the transcribed
materials were from his files, and that the view was taken that completeness was of more importance than
relevance. There are pages and sections are listed, for which there are no corresponding pages. It appears
that the project may have been abandoned with the transcription of Blinderman’s files, and that no research
was undertaken to find material not already in the files.
Be that as it may, the Piltdown Plot pages are a major resource. It appears that the material was scanned
using an OCR, and that the quality of transcription was excellent.
Outline of pages in the Piltdown Plot Project
- Fr.Osborne, Men of the Old Stone Age
- K. P. Oakley and J. S. Weiner, Piltdown Man
- William A. Clemens, Fossils of Piltdown
- Norman Hammond, Expert views differ on Jesuit’s role
- Peter Bowler, Review of Piltdown Inquest
- J. S. Weiner, Piltdown hoax: new light
- Charles Blinderman, The Piltdown Inquest (online book)
- Wash. Smith, Bedfordshire Primeval Man
- E. Ray Lankester, The Emergence of Man
- Allen Brown,Middlesex Man
- Teilhard de Chardin, Status of Australopithecines
- Sussex Express & County Herald 1954, 1906 Skull Was Not The Piltdown Find
- Dawson, Woodward, and Elliot Smith, On the Discovery of a Palæolithic Human Skull and Mandible
- Dawson, Woodward, and Elliot Smith, Supplementary Note on the Discovery
- Dawson and Woodward,On a Bone Implement from Piltdown (Sussex)
- Woodward and Elliot Smith, Fourth Note on the Piltdown Gravel
- Charles Dawson, The Piltdown Skull
- Charles Dawson, The “Restoratios” of the Bayeux Tapestry
- Charles Dawson, Prehistoric Remains
- Arthur Smith Woodward, Note on the Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus Dawsoni )
- Letters to Nature, Sherborne Horse’s Head
- Arthur Smith Woodward, The Second Piltdown Skull
- Arthur Smith Woodward, The Earliest Englishman (The book)
- B.B. Gardiner, Lady Smith Woodward’s tablecloth
- Arthur Smith Woodward, On an Apparently Palæolithic Engraving
- C. B. Stringer, Solution for the Sherborne Problem
- Arthur Smith Woodward, On the Lower Jaw of an Anthropoid Ape [Dryopithecus]
- Letters to Nature, The Fossil Anthropoid Ape from Taungs
- Lewis Abbott, The Section Exposed
- Lewis Abbott, Plateau Man in Kent
- Lewis Abbott, The New Oban Cave
- Lewis Abbott, Worked Flints from the Cromer Forest Bed
- Lewis Abbott, Primeval Refuse Heaps at Hastings
- Lewis Abbott, On the Classification of the British Stone Age Industries
- Lewis Abbott, Pre-Historic Man
- Lewis Abbott, The Piltdown Skull
- Lewis Abbott, The Discovery of British Palaeoglyphs
- W. Ruskin Butterfield, Folk-names for Marine Fishes
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Status of Australopithecines
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Idea of Fossil Man
- K. Oakley and T. de Chardin, Correspondence
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Challenger and Other Fossils
- Martin A. C. Hinton, The Pleistocene Mammalia of the British Isles
- G. Elliot Smith and Arthur Keith, The Piltdown Skull and Brain Cast
- Arthur Keith, The Significance of the Discovery at Piltdown
- Arthur Keith, Keith on Reconstruction
- Arthur Keith, Review of Osborn
- Arthur Keith, The Antiquity of the Piltdown Race
- Arthur Keith, Grafton Elliot Smith, Arthur Smith Woodward, W. L. H. Duckworth The Fossil Anthropoid Ape from Taungs
- Arthur Keith, Revival of the Piltdown Controversy
- Arthur Keith, The Piltdown Man Discovery
- Arthur Keith, Australopithcinae or Dartians
- Arthur Keith, Piltdown Man: a Re-examination
- Arthur Keith, Piltdown Recollections
- Ashley Montague, The Piltdown Mandible and Cranium
- Kenneth P. Oakley, Fluorine and the Relative Dating of Bones
- Kenneth P. Oakley, Some Applications of the Fluorine Test
- Kenneth P. Oakley, Relative Dating of the Piltdown Skull
- Kenneth Oakley and C. R. Hoskins, New Evidence on the Antiquity of Piltdown Man
- London Times November 21, 1953, Piltdown Man Forgery
- H. de Vries and Kenneth Oakley, Radiocarbon Dating of the Piltdown Skull and Jaw
- W. S. Weiner, K. P. Oakley, Wilfred Le Gros Clark, The Solution of the Piltdown Problem
- K. P. Oakley and J. S. Weiner,Chemical Examination of the Piltdown Implements
- J. S. Weiner and K. P. Oakley, The Piltdown Fraud: Available Evidence Reviewed
- J. S. Weiner The Full Extent
- Weiner, Oakley, Clark, et al, Further Contributions to the Solution of the Piltdown Problem
- “K. Oakley and T. de Chardin”, Correspondence between Dr. K.P. Oakley and P. Teilhard de Chardin on the Piltdown Hoax
- Glyn Daniel, Leakey and Piltdown
- Glyn Daniel, Max Bégouën on Teilhard
- Peter Costello, Teilhard and the Piltdown hoax
- Peter Costello, Piltdown Puzzle
- Mary Lukas, Teilhard and the Piltdown “Hoax”
- Mary Lukas & Ellen Lukas, The haunting
- Kenneth Oakley, Piltdown man
- Thomas Berry, The Piltdown Affair
- Wilifred McCulloch, Some Remarks on Teilhard and the Piltdown Hoax
- Karl Schmitz-Moorman, Teilhard and the Piltdown Hoax 1
- Editor, Teilhard Newsletter, Notes on Chronology of Piltdown 1913-1920
- Mary Lukas, Gould and Teilhard’s “Fatal Error”
- Winifred McCulloch,A Reader’s Guide to S. J. Gould’s Piltdown Argument
- Charles Blinderman & Winifred McCulloch, Blinderman – McCulloch Exchange
- Thomas M. King, S.J, Teilhard and Piltdown
- Harold R. Booher, Science fraud at piltdown: the amateur and the priest
- William Broad & Nicholas Wade, Betrayers of the Truth
- Michael Hornsy and Tim Jones, Old bones crack riddle of Piltdown Man
- Brian Gardiner and Andy Currant, The Piltdown Hoax: Who done it?
- Henry Gee, Box of Bones ‘clinches’ identity of Piltdown palaeontology hoaxer
- Roger Highfield, The charming eccentric with a passion for pranks
- Sarah Lyall, Piltdown Man Hoaxer: Missing Link Is Found
- W. J. Dempster, Something up Dawson’s Sleeve?
(This page would be better included under the defense)
- Paul Sieveking, Strange but True: Found in the loft: the bones of a hoax
- Norman Hammon, Was Piltdown finder its faker?
(This page would be better included under the defense)
- Der Spiegel 23/1996, The Pleistocene Farce
This page was last updated December 9, 2011.
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