Kenneth Oakley

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Kenneth Oakley
Kenneth Oakley
Kenneth Oakley
Born April 7, 1911
Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Died November 2, 1981
Amersham
Nationality English
Fields physical anthropologist
Known for relative dating of fossils by fluorine content

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

Kenneth Oakley, known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content,[1][2] was instrumental in the exposure[3] in the 1950s of the Piltdown Man hoax.

[edit] Publications

  • Piltdown man, Bobbs-Merrill, 1955
  • Man the Tool-Maker, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 1967
  • 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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kenneth Oakley (html). Encyclopædia Britannica online.
  2. ^ Devon Lippincott. Kenneth Page Oakley (html). Minnesota State University, Mankato EMuseum.
  3. ^ Sarah Lyall (25 May 1996). Piltdown Man Hoaxer: Missing Link Is Found (html). The New York Times.


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