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Name
  
Reginald Smith

Role
  
Author

Died
  
1940


Reginald Allender Smith Reginald Allender Smith died 18th January 1940 The Antiquaries

Books
  
British Museum Guide to Early Iron Age Antiquities 1925, British Museum Guide to Anglo-Saxon Antiquities, 1923

Reginald A. (Allender) Smith (1873–1940) was an archaeologist, Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum in the 1920s, and the author of several books.

He was on the side of the skeptics during the inquiry as to whether or not Piltdown man was genuine, known for having offered a single line of testimony concerning a "bone implement" purported to be a tool. He remarked simply, it was reported, on "the possibility of the bone having been found and whittled in recent times."

Selected publications

  • A Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1922.
  • British Museum Guide to Anglo-Saxon Antiquities. British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, 1923. Reprinted: Ipswich, Suffolk: Anglia Pub., 1993.
  • Flints: An Illustrated Manual of the Stone Age for Beginners. London: British Museum, 1928.

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