Kenneth Oakley

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Kenneth Page Oakley (April 7, 1911 – November 2, 1981) was an English physical anthropologist, geologist, and palaeontologist.

Born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, he is best known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content. He was involved in the exposure of the Piltdown man hoax during the 1950s.

[edit] Publications

• Piltdown man, Bobbs-Merrill, 1955
• Man the Tool-Maker, British Museum (Natural History), 1967
• The succession of life through geological time, British Museum (Natural History), 1967
• Frameworks for dating fossil man, Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 3rd ed, 1969
• Catalogue of Fossil Hominids: Africa, British Museum (Natural History), 1977
• Catalogue of Fossil Hominids: Americas, Asia, Australia, Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1981
• Relative dating of the fossil hominids of Europe (Bulletin of the British Museum), British Museum (Natural History), 1980

[edit] References

• Sarah Lyall, Piltdown Man Hoaxer: Missing Link Is Found, New York Times May 25, 1996

[edit] Sources

• mnsu.edu - Kenneth Page Oakley biography