Kenneth Oakley

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Nationality English Fields Biological anthropology Name Kenneth Oakley		Role Anthropologist Awards Prestwich Medal

Known for relative dating of fossils by fluorine content Died November 2, 1981, Amersham, United Kingdom Books Man the tool-maker, Frameworks for dating fossil man, Catalogue of fossil hominids, The problem of man's antiquity
Education University College London Notable awards Prestwich Medal (1963)

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

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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

References

Kenneth Oakley Wikipedia

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