Historian Pyne (Seven Skeletons) offers a thoughtful examination of what it is to be fake, using case studies ranging from instances of outright deception to clearly labeled recreations, with plenty ...

Introduction. Famous fossils, hidden histories -- The old man of La Chapelle: the patriarch of paleo -- Piltdown: a name without a fossil -- The Taung Child: the rise of a folk hero -- Peking Man: a ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Lydia Pyne is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2017 Speech. Lydia Pyne talked about her book, Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of ...

19th-century reproduction of “Apollo Belvedere”; plaster cast from Roman adaptation or copy of bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, ca 330 BCE. The William J. Battle Collection of Plaster ...

Prologue : Mossel Bay, South Africa -- pt. 1. How the Pleistocene got its ice -- 1. Rift -- African rift -- Renaissance rift -- Past imperfect -- 2. Ice -- Ice Age -- The ice cometh and goeth -- ...

Introduction: Warhols without Warhol -- The solemn mockery -- The truth about lying stones -- Carbon copy -- A fake of a different flavour -- Taking a look through Walrus Cam -- The great blue whale - ...

Our evolutionary cousin is no longer a blundering caveman. Recent research has painted a picture of a human ancestor with culture, art, and advanced cognitive skills.

From medieval to modern: bookshelves in chains -- The things that go on a bookshelf -- Bookshelves that move -- Bookshelves as signs and symbols -- The life cycle of a bookshelf "Object Lessons is a ...