Kenneth Page Oakley (7 April 1911 – 2 November 1981) was an English physical anthropologist, paleontologist and geologist.
Oakley, known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content, was instrumental in the exposure in the 1950s of the Piltdown Man hoax.
Oakley was born and died in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
Publications:
Piltdown man, Bobbs-Merrill, 1955
Man the Tool-Maker, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 1949, 6th edition 1972
The succession of life through geological time, British Museum, 1967
Frameworks for dating fossil man, Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 3rd ed, 1969
Catalogue of Fossil Hominids: Africa, British Museum, 1977