Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man

by Kenneth Oakley

This is the first book to appear which correlates within a single volume the relevant data for both archeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. The author was trained both as a geologist and as a prehistorian, and has written this book first to meet the needs of archeologists wishing to learn the stratigraphical frameworks now applied to Quaternary deposits, and second to meet the needs of geologists requiring to know the terminology of Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures.

Paperback

First published April 30, 2007

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