Ronald J. Clarke

Ronald J. Clarke

Ronald J. Clarke is an paleoanthropologist most notable for the discovery of "Little Foot", an extraordinary complete skeleton of Australopithecus, in the Sterkfontein Caves. ["Ancient ancestor reveals skeletal stamina" by B. Bower "Science News" December 26, 1998. [http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/pdfs/data/1998/154-25/15425-04.pdf full text] ] . A more technical description of various aspects of his description of the "Australopithecus" skeleon was published in the "Journal of Quaternary Science," ["The new hominid skeleton from Sterkfontein, South Africa: age and preliminary assessment" "Journal of Quaternary Science," vol. 14, Issue 4, pp.293-298" [http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1417(199907)14:4%3C293::AID-JQS471%3E3.0.CO;2-X abstract] and [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999JQS....14..293P*] ]

He also discovered the Homo ergaster partial cranium SK 847.Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar, "From Lucy to Language", 1996, New York:Simon & Schuster. pg. 184] . He also played a role in the discovery of a new skeleton of Homo habilis related to Homo rudolphensus ["Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania." "Science" Vol. 299. no. 5610, pp. 1217 - 1221 [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/299/5610/1217 abstract] ]

He was associated with the University of the Witwatersrand until he was fired by Lee Berger, the head of the university's Palaeoanthropology Research Unit. He was then hired by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in Frankfurt, Germany and allowed to continue his work excavating "Little Foot.""World-renowned Scientist sacked" http://www.geotoursafrica.com/english/news.htm (scroll down) Accessed 15 May 2006]

References

ee also

* List of fossil sites "(with link directory)"
* List of hominina (hominid) fossils "(with images)"

External links

* [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/littlefoot.html Talk.Origins article on "Little Foot."]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/dec98/safrica10.htm Full Australopithecus Fossil Found in South Africa] ("Washington Post")


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