Research Catalog

Title

The Nariokotome Homo erectus skeleton / edited by Alan Walker and Richard Leakey.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Walker, Alan, 1938-
• Leakey, Richard E.

Description

457 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 29 cm

Subject

• Homo erectus > Kenya

Note

• Two maps (folded) in pocket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-448) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction / Richard Leakey and Alan Walker -- Pt. I. The Site. 2. Geologic Setting and Age / Francis H. Brown and Ian McDougall. 3. Microstratigraphy and Paleoenvironments / Craig S. Feibel and Francis H. Brown. 4. Taphonomy / Alan Walker. 5. The Faunal Context / John M. Harris and Meave Leakey -- Pt. II. The Specimen. 6. The Skull / Alan Walker and Richard Leakey. 7. The Postcranial Bones / Alan Walker and Richard Leakey. 8. The Dentition / Barbara Brown and Alan Walker -- Pt. III. Analytical Studies. 9. The Physiological Age of KNM-WT 15000 / B. Holly Smith. 10. The Reconstruction of the Pelvis / Alan Walker and Christopher B. Ruff. 11. Body Size and Body Shape / Christopher B. Ruff and Alan Walker. 12. The Thoracic and Lumbar Vertebrae / Bruce Latimer and Carol V. Ward. 13. The Rib Cage / Lyman M. Jellema, Bruce Latimer and Alan Walker. 14. The Endocast / David Begun and Alan Walker. 15. The Vertebral Canal / Ann MacLarnon.
• 16. A Morphometric Study of Facial Growth / Joan T. Richtsmeier and Alan Walker. 17. Perspectives on the Nariokotome Discovery / Alan Walker -- A Note on Accession Numbers -- The Preparation and Casting of the Specimen.

ISBN

0674600754 (alk. paper)

LCCN

92032985

OCLC

ocm26633945

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries