Ronald J. Clarke
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Ronald J. Clarke is an paleoanthropologist most notable for the discovery of "Little Foot", an extraordinary complete skeleton of Australopithecus, in the Sterkfontein Caves. [1]. A more technical description of various aspects of his description of the Australopithecus skeleon was published in the Journal of Quaternary Science, [2]
He also discovered the Homo ergaster partial cranium SK 847.[3]. He also played a role in the discovery of a new skeleton of Homo habilis related to Homo rudolphensus [4]
He was associated with the University of the Witwatersrand until he was fired by Lee Berger, the head of the university's Palaeoanthropology Research Unit. He was then hired by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in Frankfurt, Germany and allowed to continue his work excavating "Little Foot."[5]
[edit] References
- ^ "Ancient ancestor reveals skeletal stamina" by B. Bower Science News December 26, 1998. full text
- ^ "The new hominid skeleton from Sterkfontein, South Africa: age and preliminary assessment" Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 14, Issue 4, pp.293-298 abstract and [1]
- ^ Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar, From Lucy to Language, 1996, New York:Simon & Schuster. pg. 184
- ^ "Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania." Science Vol. 299. no. 5610, pp. 1217 - 1221 abstract
- ^ "World-renowned Scientist sacked" http://www.geotoursafrica.com/english/news.htm (scroll down) Accessed 15 May 2006
[edit] See also
- List of fossil sites (with link directory)
- List of hominina (hominid) fossils (with images)
