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Reginald Allender Smith

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Reginald A. (Allender) Smith (1873–1940) was an archaeologist, Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum in the 1920s, and the author of several books.

He was on the side of the skeptics during the inquiry as to whether or not Piltdown man was genuine, known for having offered a single line of testimony concerning a "bone implement" purported to be a tool. He remarked simply, it was reported, on "the possibility of the bone having been found and whittled in recent times."[1]

Selected publications

Notes

  1. ^ Quoted in Charles Dawson and A. Smith Woodward, "On a Bone Implement from Piltdown (Sussex)." Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society Vol 71 (1915, p. 144). See also Joseph Sidney Weiner and Chris Stringer's The Piltdown Forgery: The classic Account of the Most Famous and Successful Hoax in Science. Oxford University Press, 2003. p.50.