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在英格兰苏塞克斯郡的一个酿酒厂附近,一根柱状物上雕刻的文字写道:“在此处的一段古老河流的砂砾滩中,查尔斯·道森先生发现了‘辟尔唐人’的头盖骨化石,1912～1913。”似乎没有人意识到这根柱子实际上是古人类学史上所发生的一起伪造事件的遗迹。该事件始于1912年。一位律师兼业余考古学家查尔斯·道森在给他的朋友地质学家阿瑟·史密斯·伍德沃德的信中谈到他在辟尔唐的一处砂砾滩的惊人“发现”:几块显然是属于原始人的头盖骨。伍德沃德是一位研究鱼类的专家,在类人猿方面却不擅长。他与道森以及另一位名叫皮埃尔·特尔哈德·德·查尔丁的古生物学家兼牧师来到头盖骨出土处。在他们第一次和随后的挖掘过程中,几个人找到了更
Near a brewery in Sussex, England, the engraving on a column wrote: “In the gritty beach of an ancient river here, Charles Dawson discovered the ’The Parrots’ Of the skull fossils, 1912-1913. ”It seems no one realizes that this pillar is actually a relic of a counterfeit event that took place in the history of ancient anthropology. The incident began in 1912. In a letter to his friend geologist Arthur Smith Woodward, a lawyer and amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson spoke of the astonishing “discovery” of a gravel beach in Pyatang. : Several skulls apparently belong to the primitive people. Woodward is a fish expert who is not good at apes. He and Dawson and another paleontologist and pastor named Pierre Toldhad de Chardin came to the excavated site of the skull. During their first and subsequent excavations, several people found more