“WOLVES” 
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James E. Faulkner 
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showed that the skeletal remains were 
modern and not of Lower Pleistocene 
age as alleged; that the bones and 
implements had been artificially 
stained to suggest fossilization; that 
the teeth of the mandible had been 
filed; and that the mammalian fossils 
had come from elsewhere. Every bit 
of “evidence” pointed to Dawson. Yet, 
at the end of his book Weiner hesitated 
to come to a definite conclusion. None 
of the facts presented in his book “fur- 
nishes the positive and final proof of 
[Dawson’s] responsibility.” Was this 
just fairness against a deceased man, 
or was Weiner afraid to get into trou- 
ble with the Dawson family? After 
all, Dawson’s son was a prominent gov- 
ernment official. More important was 
Sir Arthur, the grand old man who 
had followed the Piltdown story from 
the beginning and had known every- 
body involved. Shortly before he died, 
Sir Arthur stated that information fur- 
nished him by Weiner “left me no 
doubt that the man 1 had the greatest 
reverence for [Dawson] had deliber- 
ately misled his best friend, who stood 
rather outside the Piltdown discovery” 
( Sunday Times, January 9, 1955). 
Dawson was a solicitor and a roving 
amateur in many ways. But did he 
have the intelligence to plan the com- 
plicated forgery himself? From where 
did he get the material? What mo- 
tivated him? 
It has long been suspected that 
there must have been a trained sci- 
entific man behind Dawson. The Pilt- 
down mystery must have been a con- 
spiracy. Yet who was the second man, 
the perpetrator, the shadow figure in 
the background? Two were named in 
this connection: Grafton Elliot Smith 
and Teilhard de Chardin. Ronald Mil- 
lar, not convincingly, tried to put the 
blame on Smith. Now Gould bluntly 
accuses Teilhard de Chardin. 
In this article Gould uses every bit 
of information, every uncertainty in 
the record, every dubious attitude of 
Teilhard’s as evidence of his complic- 
ity. In 1953, Teilhard’s recollection 
of what had happened before the First 
World War was really so uncertain 
that he thought of having met Dawson 
for the first time in 1911 while ac- 
tually it had been in 1909. Had this 
(according to Gould) been written on 
purpose, or had Teilhard just “mis- 
understood the exact chronology”? 
When later on, “Teilhard’s silence 
about Piltdown becomes inexplicable 
to the point of perversity (unless guilt 
and knowledge of fraud engendered 
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