Olduvai Gorge Nineteen Fifty-One To Nineteen Sixty-One

Name: Olduvai Gorge Nineteen Fifty-One To Nineteen Sixty-One
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ISBN: 9780521055277

ISBN-10: 052105527X

ISBN-13: 9780521055277

Edition: N/A

Authors: L. S. B. Leakey, Phillip V. Tobias

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Olduvai is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world; indeed, the only Middle Pleistocene site of comparable importance is Choukoutien and Olduvai can show deposits far older. The site has produced a mass of material of the highest archaeological and palaeontology importance and in this first of five volumes Dr Leakey and his collaborators make their preliminary reports. The story of the excavations initiated by Dr Leakey in 1951 is well known. Their purpose was to locate and uncover a series of living-floors of early Hand-axe man and, if possible, of the preceding Olduwan culture. The discoveries were of striking and far-reaching importance. They included, besides a mass of…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1965
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 132
Size: 8.98" wide x 11.22" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 2.354
Language: English



List of text figures


List of Plates


List of tables


Introductory note


Foreword Sir W. E. Le Gros Clark, F.R.S


Editor's notes


Acknowledgements



Introduction



Preservation and reconstruction of the cranium



The cranial vault



The basis cranii externa



Certain critical angles and indices of the cranium



The interior of the calvaria



The thickness of cranial bones



The endocranial cast of Zinjanthropus



Metrical characters of the calvaria as a whole



The structure of the face



The pneumatisation of the Zinjanthropus cranium



The dental arcade and the palate



The pattern of dental attrition and occlusion, with comments on enamel hypolasia



The size of individual teeth, absolute and relative



The size of the dentition as a whole



The crown shape index of the teeth



The morphology of the teeth



Summary of cranial and dental features of Zinjanthropus



The taxonomic status of Zinjanthropus and of the australopithecines in general



The cultural and phylogenetic status of Australopithecus boisei and of the australopithecines in general


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