Dean, M Christopher;
(2025)
The Piltdown forgery of 1912-1915 and the role of Arthur Swayne Underwood MRCS, LDS, Eng. (1854-1916).
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Abstract
Arthur Swayne Underwood was a dental surgeon and academic based in London. Through his passion for comparative anatomy and odontology and his friendship with Arthur Smith Woodward at the British Museum (Natural History), later to become the Natural History Museum, London, he became embroiled in was what to prove the biggest fraud in British science. Unbeknown to the scientists involved, fake fossils and stone tools had been planted to fool them into thinking an evolutionary missing link between apes and humans had been discovered in Sussex, UK. Arthur Swayne Underwood’s role in the Piltdown fossil saga is itself something of a puzzle and has never really been fully documented or understood.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Piltdown forgery of 1912-1915 and the role of Arthur Swayne Underwood MRCS, LDS, Eng. (1854-1916) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://lindsaysociety.co.uk/newsletter/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Arthur Swayne Underwood, Royal Dental Hospital, British Museum (Natural History), Piltdown forgery. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206002 |
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