Martin Hinton

 ( English Zoologists ) 

Martin Alister Campbell Hinton Royal Society (29 June 1883 – 3 October 1961) was a British zoologist.

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Career Hinton joined the staff of the Natural History Museum in 1910, working on , in particular . He became Deputy Keeper of Zoology in 1927 and Keeper in 1936, retiring in 1945.

Hinton is among those associated with the Piltdown Man hoax, a composite of an altered human skull and ape jawbone planted, and subsequently 'discovered', at a dig in Piltdown, England, and presented as a missing link between man and ape. A trunk belonging to Hinton left in storage at the Natural History Museum and found in 1970 contained animal bones and teeth carved and stained in a manner similar to the Piltdown finds, and raising questions about Hinton's involvement in the deception. The Unmasking Of Piltdown Man BBC News Web. Accessed 9 June 2008

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External links

• Web pages and timeline about the Piltdown forgery hosted by the British Geological Survey

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