Monday, March 19, 2007
Noted Paleoanthropologist Dies
F. Clark Howell, an important University of California at Berkeley Professor of Paleoanthropology, died on March 10, 2007, at his home is Berkeley.
Dr. Howell is credited with facilitating the modern development of paleoanthropology by integrating "...archeology, geology, biological anthropology, ecology, evolutionary biology, primatology, and ethography," according to anthropologist Tim White.
Howell's most important dig was in the Omo basin in Ethiopa, where his team discovered fossils and tools that dated Australopithecoids to four million years ago.
Professor Howell was born in 1925, and received his graduate degree from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Howell is credited with facilitating the modern development of paleoanthropology by integrating "...archeology, geology, biological anthropology, ecology, evolutionary biology, primatology, and ethography," according to anthropologist Tim White.
Howell's most important dig was in the Omo basin in Ethiopa, where his team discovered fossils and tools that dated Australopithecoids to four million years ago.
Professor Howell was born in 1925, and received his graduate degree from the University of Chicago.
