Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and text-figures
- List of plates
- Introductory Note
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I The general geological evidence
- II Review of earlier reports on the fauna
- III Mammalian fauna: other than Bovidae
- IV Mammalian fauna: Bovidae
- V Non-mammalian fauna
- VI Review of the faunal evidence
- VII The problems of the climatic sequence
- VIII Dating by the potassium–argon technique
- IX Note on fossil human discoveries and cultural evidence
- Appendix 1 Preliminary notes on the stratigraphy of Beds I–IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika
- Appendix 2 Descriptive list of the named localities in Olduvai Gorge
- References
- Map
- Index
- Plate section
- Plate section
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IX - Note on fossil human discoveries and cultural evidence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and text-figures
- List of plates
- Introductory Note
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I The general geological evidence
- II Review of earlier reports on the fauna
- III Mammalian fauna: other than Bovidae
- IV Mammalian fauna: Bovidae
- V Non-mammalian fauna
- VI Review of the faunal evidence
- VII The problems of the climatic sequence
- VIII Dating by the potassium–argon technique
- IX Note on fossil human discoveries and cultural evidence
- Appendix 1 Preliminary notes on the stratigraphy of Beds I–IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika
- Appendix 2 Descriptive list of the named localities in Olduvai Gorge
- References
- Map
- Index
- Plate section
- Plate section
- Plate section
- Plate section
Summary
In this first volume I have tried to set out the present state of our knowledge of the background evidence, against which the very important fossil human remains from Olduvai and the Stone Age cultural sequence there can be assessed. Preliminary reports upon the fossil hominid discoveries have appeared from time to time since 1958, both in Nature and in the popular press, and scientists are therefore already aware of the general picture. The study of the fossil human remains and of the stone tools, together with a detailed report upon the excavations of sites will appear in subsequent volumes.
Volume 2 by Professor Phillip V. Tobias, of the Medical School, Johannesburg, is now in the final stages of preparation, and will be published during 1967. It deals with the skull of Zinjanthropus boisei in very considerable detail.
Three further volumes are in preparation. Mrs M. D. Leakey's deals with the living sites and cultural sequence of Bed I and Bed II, and will include chapters by Dr Leakey on the fauna associated with each living floor.
Dr Richard Hay's volume, dealing with the details of the geology of Olduvai Gorge, is being prepared.
Another volume by Professor Phillip Tobias, also now in active preparation, will be a careful study of Homo habilis, the LLK skull, and a variety of other Olduvai hominids.
At the time of writing this report, i.e. up to the end of December 1961, fossil hominid remains had been found at three different levels in Bed I.
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- Olduvai Gorge , pp. 92 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1965