Man the Tool-Maker

by Kenneth Oakley

This remarkable book explains the developmetn of man and his creation & use of tools from antiquity to and through the Palaeolithic Age; Profusely illustrated with photos from archaelogical finds. Paperback, 100pp.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Biology

98 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1972

About the author

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

Catalogue of Fossil Hominids: Americas, Asia, Australia, Smithsonian Institution Proceedings, 1981

Relative dating of the fossil hominids of Europe, British Museum, 1980

Reviews

[Jimmy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Silly by today's science but super interesting.