Glynn Isaac

Glynn Llywelyn Isaac ( born November 19, 1937 in Cape Town; † 5 October 1985 in Tokyo) was a South African archaeologist, anthropologist and paleoanthropologist. Most recently, he was a professor of anthropology at Harvard University.

In addition to Richard Leakey Glynn Isaac was initiator and co-director of the Koobi Fora Research Project in Kenya, which provided significant contributions to the study of early human ancestors. After attending school in South Africa and England Isaac acquired in 1958 at the University of Cape Town academic degree Bachelor of Science ( BSc) in Zoology with a focus on archeology and ethnology, and three years later another Bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Arts) at the University of Cambridge. Also in Cambridge, he earned master's degrees in 1966 and 1969, the doctoral degree ( PhD). In 1966 Isaac was changed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1983 he became a professor at Harvard. His identical twin brother brother Rhys L. Isaac was professor of American history at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

In an obituary for Isaac it was said that he had been considered for a particularly gifted expert of the field research in East Africa, enriched on the other, the theoretical discussion on the causes of the Incarnation. So he would have turned out the context of long-term used whereabouts of these outbound foraging and sharing of procured food among the members of a group. He also had one of the first paleoanthropologists pointed out that one must also seek between the known fossil sites for specific findings. Isaac had suggested experiments to understand the consequences of the transport of bone and stone tools by floods had on the nature of the paleontological and archaeological finds and their deposition. He had also be examined, in which form today's hyenas and other predators influence the composition of skeletal remains, even with the goal to understand how fossil deposits are to be interpreted. Finally, he can perform experiments, in which were caused by stone tools cutting marks readjusted in bone.

Writings

  • The archeology of human origins. Papers by Glynn Isaac. Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0521023153 (year of first publication: 1989 )
  • Koobi Fora Research Project, Volume 5: Plio - Pleistocene Archaeology. Clarendon Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0198575016
  • Human Ancestors: Readings from Scientific American. W. H. Freeman & Co., Ltd.. , 1979, ISBN 978-0716711018
  • Olorgesailie: Archeological Studies of a Middle Pleistocene Lake Basin in Kenya. University of Chicago Press, 1977, ISBN 978-0226384849
  • Human Origins: Louis Leakey and the East African Evidence. WA Benjamin, Advanced Book Program, 1976, ISBN 978-0805399424
  • Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy and cultural patterns in East Africa. Wenner -Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1973
  • Archaeological traces of early hominid activities, East of Lake Rudolf, Kenya. Bobbs- Merrill, 1971
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