Day, Michael H.
Fossil Man.
Knowledge Through Color Series. Toronto/ New York/London: Bantam Books, 1970. Nearly ten years out of date, but with good drawings of many of the important fossils discussed in this unit, and fairly easy presentation of information.
Johanson, Don C., “The Quest for Early Man in Ethiopia,”
The Explorer
,
16
(4), 4 (Winter 1974). A readable account by an anthropologist of life at the fossil hunting camp and the significance of fossil finds.
__________, “Ethiopia Yields First ‘Family’ of Early Man,”
National Geographic
,
150 (6), 790 (December 1976), Description of one of the great recent fossil finds at Hadar, Ethiopia. Excellent photographs.
Leakey, L. S. B., “A New Fossil Skull from Olduvai,”
Nature
,
184
, 491 (August 15, 1959). The announcement of the “Zinj”, find. Can be adapted for student reading, and is recommended so that students can see a descriptive scientific paper.
Leakey, Mary D., “Footprints in the Ashes of Time,”
National Geographic
,
155
(4), 446 (April 1979). Present in all school libraries, very current, and lavishly accompanied by excellent photographs.
Leakey, Richard E., “Skull 1470: Discovery in Kenya of the Earliest Suggestion of the Genus Homo—Nearly Three Million Years Old—Compels a Rethinking of Mankind’s Pedigree, National Geographic,
143
(6), 818 (June 1973). Another good National Geographic reference article. See particularly “Fleshing Out a Face from the Past.”
Life Nature Library.
Early Man
. 1965. Adaptable for use.
Mahan, Harold D., Lucy: “A New Link in Human Evolution,” The Explorer, 21 (2), 4 (Summer 1979). The director of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Johanson’s homebase) gives a personal account of the
A. afarensis
announcement.
Moore, Ruth.
Evolution
. Life Nature Library. New York: TimeLife Books, 1962. Good background on the theory of evolution is provided by Chapter 2, “A Theory That Shook the World.” Chapter 6, “The Search for Mankind’s Ancestors,” and Chapter 7, “Dawn Man and His Brothers,” are good reference chapters, and they are accompanied with good photographs.
Payne, Melvin M., “The Leakey Tradition Lives On,”
National Geographic
. 143 (1), 142 (January 1973). Brief comment on the life and work of Louis Leakey, followed by mention of the continued work of his wife Mary and son Richard.
Simons, Elwyn L., “In Search of the Missing Link.”
Discovery
,
1
(2), 24 (Spring 1966). An historical account of major hominid fossil finds, for the advanced student.