Glynn Isaac
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Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (1937-1985) was a South African archaeologist who specialised in the very early prehistory of Africa.
He took his first degree from the University of Cape Town in 1958 before studying for his PhD at Peterhouse, Cambridge which he completed in 1969. He was also Warden for Prehistoric Sites in Kenya between 1961 and 1962 and Deputy Director of the Centre for Prehistory and Palaeontology at the National Museums of Kenya from 1963 to 1965. Working with Richard Leakey, he was co-director of the East African Koobi Fora project.
In 1966 he joined the anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1983 he was appointed Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University where he was developing new research projects at the time of his death.
His publications include:
- The Archaeology of Human Origins, Cambridge University Press
- Olorgesailie: Archaeological Studies of the Middle Lake Basin in Kenya University of Chicago Press, 1977
- Koobi Fora Research Project: Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology Glynn Ll Isaac (Editor), et al, Clarendon Press, 1997
- Human Origins: Louis Leakey and the East African Evidence ~Glynn Ll. Isaac, Elizabeth Richards McCown, WA Benjamin, 1976
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- Darvill, T (ed.) (2003). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280005-1.
