Piltdownn.

Brit.

/ˈpɪltdaʊn/, U.S.

/ˈpɪltˌdaʊn/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Piltdown.

Etymology: < Piltdown, the name of a village in Sussex, England (see below). Compare Eoanthropus n., dawn man n.

I. attributive.

a. Designating or relating to an alleged fossil skull whose remains were claimed in 1912 to have been found at Piltdown in Sussex, England, or the supposed primitive hominid to which the remains were ascribed; as Piltdown hoax, Piltdown jaw, Piltdown skull.In 1953 the remains were shown to be fraudulent, and to be composed of pieces of cranium from a present-day human and a jaw from an ape that had been deliberately doctored.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > protohuman > [adjective]

Cro-Magnon1869

palaeanthropic1890

pithecanthropoid1890

pithecanthropic1897

theriozoic1898

Combe-Capelle1911

Piltdown1912

Predmost1912

Boskop1915

hominid1915

Neanderthalian1920

Tardenoisian1921

pithecanthropine1925

Sinanthropic1931

Solo1932

Florisbad1935

Steinheim1935

Sinanthropoid1937

Swanscombe1937

robust1971

the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > specific fossil

Piltdown skull1912

Rhodesian skull1921

Piltdown jaw1933

Saccopastore cranium1934

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > [noun] > fossil

Piltdown skull1912

Rhodesian skull1921

Saccopastore cranium1934

Saccopastore skull1934

1912 Times 19 Dec. 4/5 He [sc. A. S. Woodward] inclined..to the theory that..surviving modern man might have arisen directly from the primitive source of which the Piltdown skull provided the first discovered evidence.

1913 Times 25 Feb. 10/3 The Piltdown skull has now been formally presented to the British Museum.

1916 Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 562 He further believes that the Piltdown race was not related in any way either to the Heidelbergs or to the Neandertals.

1933 A. S. Romer Man & Vertebr. xi. 246 Can it be that the Piltdown jaw does not belong with the skull?

1953 J. S. Weiner & K. P. Oakley in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Geol. 2 iii. 145 The iron and chromate staining of the Piltdown jaw seems to us to be explicable only as a necessary part of the deliberate matching of the jaw of a modern ape with the mineralized cranial fragments.

1955 Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Geol. 3 vi. 228 We are now in a position to give an account of the full extent of the Piltdown hoax... Not one of the Piltdown finds genuinely came from Piltdown.

1989 Gamut Summer 39/1 Tests for the amount of fluorine absorbed by the bones from ground-water clearly demonstrated that the Piltdown jaw was of recent origin.

b. Piltdown man n. the primitive hominid thought to be represented by the Piltdown skull, named Eoanthropus dawsoni and regarded by some as the missing link.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > protohuman > [noun]

anthropolite1778

Neanderthal man1861

caveman1862

man1863

prehistoric man1863

Pithecanthropus1873

Java man1895

Homo erectus1904

Heidelberg1909

Eoanthropus1912

dawn man1913

Neanderthaler1913

Piltdown man1913

Aurignacian1915

Neanderthalian1920

Rhodesian man1921

Boskopoid1926

Peking man1926

Sinanthropus1927

Piltdown1931

Predmostian1931

Minnesota Man1932

Neanderthaloid1934

Steinheim1935

Gigantopithecus1936

Africanthropus1938

Paranthropus1938

Piltdowner1941

Meganthropus1942

Telanthropus1949

Saldanha Man1953

pithecanthropine1955

Nutcracker Man1959

Homo habilis1964

iceman1972

1913 A. Keith in Times 14 Aug. 4/4 To the end of time we shall speak of Neanderthal man, and this person, who was distant cousin of his and lived at Piltdown, will be spoken of as the Piltdown man for many centuries.

1937 Life 12 Apr. 22/2 The Piltdown Man is 500,000 years old, more or less.

1955 J. S. Weiner Piltdown Forgery 204 The end of Piltdown man is the end of the most troubled chapter in human palaeontology.

1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 98 The Piltdown Man, first carnivore to laugh.

1994 W. Maples & M. Browning Dead Men do tell Tales iii. 42 Perhaps the most famous fraud ever attempted along these lines was the renowned skull of ‘Piltdown Man’, which was ‘unearthed’ early in this century.

2. figurative and in extended use. Suggestive of Piltdown man or the Piltdown hoax; primitive, outdated.

ΚΠ

1954 N. Nicholson Pot Geranium 49 Youth still felt the ache of the long climb From the slime to the Piltdown grunt and the Latin tags.

1961 Times 9 Nov. 17/1 We must always be beholden to Evans over whom suspicions of a Piltdown sort hang, darkened now by Professor Palmer's discoveries in the Ashmolean.

1971 N. Fleming Hash i. 12 So there is a brain underneath that thatch-covered Piltdown skull of yours.

1981 Time (Nexis) 6 Apr. 3 You rib Alexander Haig for his Piltdown treatment of the English language... Haigledygook is the creative flowering of basic Army jargon.

1990 N.Y. Times 4 Dec. a31/1 Then you could go into the piltdown barbarism of the East Village.

II. absol.

3. Piltdown man; the Piltdown hoax. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > protohuman > [noun]

anthropolite1778

Neanderthal man1861

caveman1862

man1863

prehistoric man1863

Pithecanthropus1873

Java man1895

Homo erectus1904

Heidelberg1909

Eoanthropus1912

dawn man1913

Neanderthaler1913

Piltdown man1913

Aurignacian1915

Neanderthalian1920

Rhodesian man1921

Boskopoid1926

Peking man1926

Sinanthropus1927

Piltdown1931

Predmostian1931

Minnesota Man1932

Neanderthaloid1934

Steinheim1935

Gigantopithecus1936

Africanthropus1938

Paranthropus1938

Piltdowner1941

Meganthropus1942

Telanthropus1949

Saldanha Man1953

pithecanthropine1955

Nutcracker Man1959

Homo habilis1964

iceman1972

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 317/1 On comparing her [sc. a female hominid] with the Piltdown man he makes amends by describing her as Piltdown refined.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. i. 27 Alas, we historians have so little scandal. We are not palaeontologists to display our Piltdowns.

1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus iii. 44 Piltdown was cleverly wrought and fooled professionals for forty years, while the Cardiff Giant was preposterous from the start.

1993 New Scientist 20 Feb. 43/2 Piltdown had a big cranium and an ape-like jaw, whereas Australopithecus had an apish cranium and a human-like jaw.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	piltdown
释义	Piltdownn. Brit. /ˈpɪltdaʊn/, U.S. /ˈpɪltˌdaʊn/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Piltdown. Etymology: < Piltdown, the name of a village in Sussex, England (see below). Compare Eoanthropus n., dawn man n. I. attributive. 1. a. Designating or relating to an alleged fossil skull whose remains were claimed in 1912 to have been found at Piltdown in Sussex, England, or the supposed primitive hominid to which the remains were ascribed; as Piltdown hoax, Piltdown jaw, Piltdown skull.In 1953 the remains were shown to be fraudulent, and to be composed of pieces of cranium from a present-day human and a jaw from an ape that had been deliberately doctored. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [adjective] Cro-Magnon1869 palaeanthropic1890 pithecanthropoid1890 pithecanthropic1897 theriozoic1898 Combe-Capelle1911 Piltdown1912 Predmost1912 Boskop1915 hominid1915 Neanderthalian1920 Tardenoisian1921 pithecanthropine1925 Sinanthropic1931 Solo1932 Florisbad1935 Steinheim1935 Sinanthropoid1937 Swanscombe1937 robust1971 the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > specific fossil Piltdown skull1912 Rhodesian skull1921 Piltdown jaw1933 Saccopastore cranium1934 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > [noun] > fossil Piltdown skull1912 Rhodesian skull1921 Saccopastore cranium1934 Saccopastore skull1934 1912 Times 19 Dec. 4/5 He [sc. A. S. Woodward] inclined..to the theory that..surviving modern man might have arisen directly from the primitive source of which the Piltdown skull provided the first discovered evidence. 1913 Times 25 Feb. 10/3 The Piltdown skull has now been formally presented to the British Museum. 1916 Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 562 He further believes that the Piltdown race was not related in any way either to the Heidelbergs or to the Neandertals. 1933 A. S. Romer Man & Vertebr. xi. 246 Can it be that the Piltdown jaw does not belong with the skull? 1953 J. S. Weiner & K. P. Oakley in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Geol. 2 iii. 145 The iron and chromate staining of the Piltdown jaw seems to us to be explicable only as a necessary part of the deliberate matching of the jaw of a modern ape with the mineralized cranial fragments. 1955 Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Geol. 3 vi. 228 We are now in a position to give an account of the full extent of the Piltdown hoax... Not one of the Piltdown finds genuinely came from Piltdown. 1989 Gamut Summer 39/1 Tests for the amount of fluorine absorbed by the bones from ground-water clearly demonstrated that the Piltdown jaw was of recent origin. b. Piltdown man n. the primitive hominid thought to be represented by the Piltdown skull, named Eoanthropus dawsoni and regarded by some as the missing link. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1913 A. Keith in Times 14 Aug. 4/4 To the end of time we shall speak of Neanderthal man, and this person, who was distant cousin of his and lived at Piltdown, will be spoken of as the Piltdown man for many centuries. 1937 Life 12 Apr. 22/2 The Piltdown Man is 500,000 years old, more or less. 1955 J. S. Weiner Piltdown Forgery 204 The end of Piltdown man is the end of the most troubled chapter in human palaeontology. 1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 98 The Piltdown Man, first carnivore to laugh. 1994 W. Maples & M. Browning Dead Men do tell Tales iii. 42 Perhaps the most famous fraud ever attempted along these lines was the renowned skull of ‘Piltdown Man’, which was ‘unearthed’ early in this century. 2. figurative and in extended use. Suggestive of Piltdown man or the Piltdown hoax; primitive, outdated. ΚΠ 1954 N. Nicholson Pot Geranium 49 Youth still felt the ache of the long climb From the slime to the Piltdown grunt and the Latin tags. 1961 Times 9 Nov. 17/1 We must always be beholden to Evans over whom suspicions of a Piltdown sort hang, darkened now by Professor Palmer's discoveries in the Ashmolean. 1971 N. Fleming Hash i. 12 So there is a brain underneath that thatch-covered Piltdown skull of yours. 1981 Time (Nexis) 6 Apr. 3 You rib Alexander Haig for his Piltdown treatment of the English language... Haigledygook is the creative flowering of basic Army jargon. 1990 N.Y. Times 4 Dec. a31/1 Then you could go into the piltdown barbarism of the East Village. II. absol. 3. Piltdown man; the Piltdown hoax. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 317/1 On comparing her [sc. a female hominid] with the Piltdown man he makes amends by describing her as Piltdown refined. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. i. 27 Alas, we historians have so little scandal. We are not palaeontologists to display our Piltdowns. 1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus iii. 44 Piltdown was cleverly wrought and fooled professionals for forty years, while the Cardiff Giant was preposterous from the start. 1993 New Scientist 20 Feb. 43/2 Piltdown had a big cranium and an ape-like jaw, whereas Australopithecus had an apish cranium and a human-like jaw. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1912
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