The Wisdom of Bones : In search of human origins / Alan Walker & Pat Shipman.

By:

Walker, Alan, 1938-

Contributor(s):

Shipman, Pat, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996.Description: xii, 270p., [8]p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780297816706 (hbk.) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

573.3 20

Summary: This is the story of the excavation of Nariokotome Boy, found in Kenya in 1984 by Leakey and Walker, over 1.5 million years old and the most complete skeleton of Homo erectus ever found. It also covers the years of intensive research that followed.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index.

This is the story of the excavation of Nariokotome Boy, found in Kenya in 1984 by Leakey and Walker, over 1.5 million years old and the most complete skeleton of Homo erectus ever found. It also covers the years of intensive research that followed.

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