Prehistoric Cultures -- University of Minnesota Duluth

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Anthropology in the News

HomePage

22 May 2013
Today in History
Today in Headlines

Word of the Day

Prehistoric Cultures

Fall 2012 Calendar -- DAY [archive]

Fall 2012 Calendar -- EVENING [archive]

Dates and Times to Remember

class slides on-line
(free PowerPoint Viewer 2010)

22 May 2013
. . . in History
. . . in Headlines

Babel Fish Translation
~ translate this page

Cutting Costs for College Textbooks

general textbook information

Arthur Smith Woodward's
Reconstruction of the Piltdown Skull

to top of page / A-Z index

Piltdown

("a man who never was")

Portrait by John Cooke, 1915

Back row (from left): F. O. Barlow, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Dawson, Arthur Smith Woodward.
Front row: A. S. Underwood, Arthur Keith, W. P. Pycraft, and Sir Ray Lankester.
Teilhard de Chardin is absent.

(chart)

Homo sapiens sapiens:

"Early Moderns"

Contemporary Moderns

Reconstruction of Piltdown Man

to top of page $/\$ and A-Z index

In the News . . .

Piltdown Man: A Hoaxer Still Pursued -- BBC News (16 December 2012)
The Search Is on to Find the Faker Behind Piltdown Man -- Telegraph (03 December 2012)
Piltdown Man: British Archaeology's Greatest Hoax -- Guardian (04 February 2012)
Piltdown Man: British archaeology’s greatest hoax -- Past Horizons (05 February 2012)

to top of page $/\$ and A-Z index

Bones in box show culprit behind Piltdown fraud -- Nando.net
Creationist Arguments: Piltdown Man -- Jim Foley
PILTDOWN: Evidence of Smith-Woodward's Complicity -- Gerell M. Drawhorn
Piltdown Man -- Richard Harter
Piltdown Man -- Wikipedia
- search "Piltdown Man" on JSTOR
A Piltdown Man Bibliography -- Tom Turritin
Piltdown Man is revealed as fake, 1953 -- WGBH
Piltdown man unmasked -- BBCnews
- The Unmasking of Piltdown Man -- BBCnews
The Piltdown Plot -- Charles Blinderman and David Joyce
Piltdown's lessons for modern science -- BBCnews
The Strange Case of the Piltdown Man -- David John
The Unmasking of Piltdown Man -- BBCnews
- Piltdown man unmasked -- BBCnews

to top of page / A-Z index

Homo sapiens

Human Family Tree
National Museum of Natural History

Times to Remember

| Primates -- Contemporary | Primates -- Prehistoric | Hominids | Australopithecus |
top of page

Genus

Species

Variety

Alternative Name

Example

Homo

sapiens

heidelberg-
ensis

"Pre-Modern"
("Archaic")

Heidelberg, Steinheim, Swanscombe, Kabwe . . .

Neanderthal-
ensis?
(Denisovans?)
Neandertal

Homo floresiensis ?

"Hobbit"

sapiens
(prehistoric)

Prehistoric
"Early Moderns"

Cro-Magnon, Border Cave, Qafzeh, etc.

sapiens
(contemporary)

Contemporary
"Moderns"

UMD Students

Special Case: Piltdown

Adapted from Intoduction to Physical Anthropology, 8^th ed, Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore, and Trevathan
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000, pp. 285 - 290).

to top of page $/\$ and A-Z index

© 1998 - 2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
Page URL: http:// www.d.umn.edu /cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcpilt.html
Last Modified 17 December 2012
Site Information / Disclaimers ~ Main A-Z Index

View Stats

Maps & Directions | Parking | Contact UMD | Site Map | Privacy | DMCA

© 2013 University of Minnesota Duluth
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
Last modified on 12/17/12 07:03 PM

University of Minnesota Campuses
Crookston | Duluth | Morris
Rochester | Twin Cities | Other Locations

© 1998 - 2013 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved Page URL: http:// www.d.umn.edu /cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcpilt.html Last Modified 17 December 2012 Site Information / Disclaimers ~ Main A-Z Index
	View Stats