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Nationality
  
English

Fields
  
Biological anthropology

Name
  
Kenneth Oakley

Role
  
Anthropologist

Awards
  
Prestwich Medal


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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

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