Great Articles About Fake Amber and the "Piltdown Fly"

Great Articles About Fake Amber and the "Piltdown Fly"

There is a great feature article about fake amber and fake
fossil inclusions in amber. It talks about the various ways
of faking and enhancing amber.

The paper is;

Erikasson, M. E., and G. O. Poinar, 2015, Fake it till you
make it—the uncanny art of forging amber. Geology
Today. vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 21-27.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gto.12083/abstract

This article also has a marvelous picture of a piece of
"amber" that contains a trilobite. This trilobite can be
seen on the 10 TONS / Models and paleontological
reproduction Facebook page at:

https://www.facebook.com/10TonsModels/photos/a.159459890916202.1073741832.150975915097933/326377594224430/?type=1&theater
or https://www.facebook.com/10TonsModels?fref=nf

A related article is;

Piltdown Fly by Erica McAlister, Curator of Diptera's
blog, Natural history Museum, December 21, 2012
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/diptera-blog/2012/12/21/piltdown-fly

Yours,

Paul H.