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Kenneth P. Oakley

fl. 1966

Scholar, active in 1966. Worked with David J. Nixon.

Life and work

  1. 1966
    At the British Museum (Natural History) in 1966 identified the bones that Nixon brought from Akrotiri-Aetokremnos as pygmy hippopotamus and the chipped stone as possibly Neolithic.

    Geoffrey A. Clark, Perspectives on the Past: Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research (1991), p. 290

  2. 1966
    Of the British Museum; in 1966 identified the bones as pygmy hippo and the chipped stone as possibly Neolithic.

    Geoffrey A. Clark (1991). Perspectives on the Past: Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 290.

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    Examined bone and stone objects from Aetokremnos brought by Nixon to the British Museum (Natural History), finding the flints cultural and the bones from the Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus.

    Alan H. Simmons; Katelyn DiBenedetto (2014). Stone Age Sailors: Paleolithic Seafaring in the Mediterranean. Walnut Creek, CA, Left Coast Press, Inc.. p. 134.

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  • Kenneth Oakley indicated an assessment of the flints brought to the museum.

    flints brought by David J. NixonBritish Museum (Natural History), LondonSimmons 1999, p. 1

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Sources

  1. 1.Alan H. Simmons (1999). Faunal Extinction in an Island Society: Pygmy Hippopotamus Hunters of Cyprus. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
  2. 2.Geoffrey A. Clark, Perspectives on the Past: Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research (1991).
  3. 3.Alan H. Simmons; Salvador Bailon; Stephen R. Durand; Vincenzo M. Francaviglia; Rolfe D. Mandel; Cécile Mourer-Chauviré; Michael Neeley; Margaret E. Newman; Sandra Olsen; David S. Reese; Kathy Roler; Mark Rose; Martin R. Rose; Karel J. Steensma; Stuart Swiny; Peter E. Wigand, Faunal Extinction in an Island Society: Pygmy Hippopotamus Hunters of Cyprus (2002).
  4. 4.Alan H. Simmons; Katelyn DiBenedetto (2014). Stone Age Sailors: Paleolithic Seafaring in the Mediterranean. Walnut Creek, CA, Left Coast Press, Inc.. p. 134..
  5. 5.Geoffrey A. Clark (1991). Perspectives on the Past: Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 290..
  6. 6.Alan H. Simmons; Katelyn DiBenedetto, Stone Age Sailors: Paleolithic Seafaring in the Mediterranean (2014).

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