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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Francis Clark Howell , generally known as F. Clark Howell, was an American anthropologist. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, F. Clark Howell grew up in Kansas, where he became interested in natural history. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, from 1944 to 1946 in the Pacific Theater. Howell was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees under the tutelage of Sherwood L. Washburn.

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Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia (2003) (923)
The Potassium-Argon Dating of Late Cenozoic Rocks in East Africa and Italy [and Comments and Reply] (1965) (279)
Macrovertebrate Paleontology and the Pliocene Habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus (2009) (236)
Asa Issie, Aramis and the origin of Australopithecus (2006) (234)
Mandibular postcanine dentition from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia: crown morphology, taxonomic allocations, and Plio-Pleistocene hominid evolution. (1996) (210)
African Ecology and Human Evolution. (1964) (206)
Depositional environments, archeological occurrences and hominids from Members E and F of the Shungura Formation (Omo basin, Ethiopia) (1987) (173)
The Fate of the "Classic" Neanderthals: A Consideration of Hominid Catastrophism [and Comments and Reply] (1964) (169)
European and Northwest African Middle Pleistocene Hominids (1960) (138)
The significance of the fossil hominid skull from Petralona, Greece (1979) (119)
Paleo-Demes, Species Clades, and Extinctions in the Pleistocene Hominin Record (1999) (107)
The Evolutionary Significance of Variation and Varieties of "Neanderthal" Man (1957) (97)
New Finds at the Swartkrans Australopithecine Site (contd): More Evidence of an Advanced Hominid at Swartkrans (1970) (93)
The place of Neanderthal man in human evolution. (1951) (93)
Pleistocene Glacial Ecology and the Evolution of "Classic Neandertal" Man (1952) (92)
Cranium of a juvenile Australopithecus boisei from the lower Omo Basin, Ethiopia (1978) (77)
Cave bears and paleolithic artifacts in Yarimburgaz Cave, Turkey: Dissecting a palimpsest (1996) (76)
Affinities of the Swartkrans 847 hominid cranium. (1972) (73)
A gracile hominid cranium from upper member G of the Shungura formation, Ethiopia. (1977) (72)
Remains of Hominidae from Pliocene/Pleistocene Formations in the Lower Omo Basin, Ethiopia (1969) (68)
Mio-Pliocene mammals from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia (2004) (68)
The Pachycrocuta and Hyaena lineages (plio-pleistocene and extant species of the Hyaenidae). Their relationships with miocene ictitheres: Palhyaena and Hyaenictitherium (1980) (66)
Reconstructing cave bear paleoecology from skeletons: a cross-disciplinary study of middle Pleistocene bears from Yarimburgaz Cave, Turkey (1998) (65)
Early hominid ulna from the Omo basin, Ethiopia (1974) (63)
Comparative observations on some middle and upper miocenehyaenids, Genera: Percrocuta Kretzoi, Allohyaena Kretzoi, Adcrocuta Kretzoi (Mammalia, Carnivora, Hyaenidae) (1985) (59)
The Middle Pleistocene Lithic Assemblage from Yarimburgaz Cave, Turkey. (1996) (57)
Uranium-series Dating of Bone from the Isimila Prehistoric Site, Tanzania (1972) (56)
Archaeological Occurrences of Early Pleistocene Age from the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia (1973) (56)
Early hominid ulna from the Omo basin, Ethiopia. (1976) (54)
The Lower Pleistocene lithic assemblage from Dursunlu (Konya), central Anatolia, Turkey (2009) (53)
THE OLDOWAN : CASE STUDIES INTO THE EARLIEST STONE AGE (2012) (52)
New Discoveries in Tanganyika: Their Bearing on Hominid Evolution [and Comments and Reply] (1965) (44)
Observations on the Earlier Phases of the European Lower Paleolithic (2009) (42)
OBSERVATIONS ON THE ACHEULEAN OCCUPATION SITE OF AMBRONA (SORIA PROVINCE, SPAIN) : WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO RECENT INVESTIGATIONS (1980-1983) AND THE LOWER OCCUPATION (1991) (42)
Isimila: A Paleolithic Site in Africa (1961) (41)
A Chronostratigraphic and Taxonomic Framework of the Origins of Modern Humans (1994) (36)
Faunal age of the Usno, Shungura B and Hadar Formations, Ethiopia (1982) (34)
Inventory of remains of Hominidae from Pliocene-Pleistocene formations of the lower Omo basin, Ethiopia (1967-1972). (1974) (33)
Carnivora (Mammalia) from Lemudong'o (Late Miocene: Narok District, Kenya) (2007) (31)
The Haua Fteah (Cyrenaica) and the Stone Age of the South‐East Mediterranean. C. B. M. McBurney (1968) (28)
Observations on problems of correlation of late Cenozoic hominid-bearing formations in the North Lake Turkana Basin (1978) (26)
Recent Advances in Human Evolutionary Studies (1967) (24)
A statistical approach to temporal biostratigraphy (1978) (23)
Outside Africs: Middle Pleuistocene Lycaon from Hayonim cave, Israel (2001) (23)
Recent studies in paleoanthropology (1966) (22)
Origins and evolution of African Hominidae (1982) (21)
Ivory points from the Earlier Acheulean of the Spanish Meseta (1983) (19)
Deciduous teeth of Hominidae from the Pliocene/Pleistocene of the lower Omo basin, Ethiopia (1973) (17)
The earliest Metridiochoerus (Artiodactyla: Suidae) from the Usno Formation, Ethiopia (2006) (17)
The Villafranchian and Human Origin: Man's bipedalism and the use of tools appeared during times of faunal change in the early Pleistocene (1959) (16)
Fossil Camels in the Omo Beds, Southern Ethiopia (1969) (15)
A new species of Plesiogulo (Mustelidae: Carnivora) from the Late Miocene of Africa (2004) (15)
Zonation of late Miocene and early Pliocenecircum-mediterranean faunas (1980) (14)
The paleoecology and paleogeographic contet of Lemudong'o locality 1, a late Miocene terrestrial fossil site in southern Kenya (2007) (14)
Evolutionary Implications of Altered Perspectives on Hominine Demes and Populations in the Later Pleistocene of Western Eurasia (2002) (14)
New Discovery of a large Mustelid - Pannonictis cf. nestii - (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the early Pleistocene locality of Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) (2008) (12)
Asa Issie, Aramis and the origin of (2006) (11)
New Fossil Cercopithecus Material from the Lower Omo Basin, Ethiopia (1972) (10)
Hominids, Pebble-tools and the African Villafranchian (1954) (9)
Potassium-Argon Dating at Olduvai Gorge (1962) (9)
Retrospective and Perspective (1991) (9)
Mammalian Remains from the Isimila Prehistoric Site, Tanzania (1972) (8)
Relationship of Australopithecus and Homo (1978) (8)
The Villafranchian and human origins. (1959) (7)
The age of the australopithecines of southern Africa. (1955) (7)
On the identification of the hypophysial fossa of Solo man. (1952) (5)
Stratigraphic interpretation of the omo shungura and lake turkana fossil suid record. (1978) (5)
More on Middle Pleistocene Hominids (1961) (5)
The evolution of human hunting: Edited by Matthew H. & Doris V. Nitecki. (1987). New York: Plenum Press. vii + 464 pp. $75. ISBN 0-306-42821-0 (1989) (4)
Culture and Biology at a Crossroads: The Middle Pleistocene Record of Yarimburgaz Cave (Thrace, Turkey) (2010) (4)
Dursunlu, Lower Pleistocene faunal and archeological locality, Konya basin, Anatolia (Turkey) (1999) (4)
A Preliminary Note on a Prehistoric Donga (Maclennan's Donga) in Central Tanganyika (1955) (4)
Bone, Tooth, and Horn Tools of Palaeolithic Man. An account of the osteodontokeratic discoveries in Pin Hole Cave, Derbyshire. James W. Kitching. Manchester University Press, Manchester, England; Humanities Press, New York, 1964. xiv + 55 pp. Illus. $4.50 (1965) (4)
Man-apes or ape-men? The story of discoveries in Africa. Sir Wilfrid E. LeGros Clark. Pp. VII + 150. Illustrated. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1967. $3.95 (1967) (3)
10. Some views of Homo erectus with special reference to its occurrence in Europe (1981) (3)
The hominization process (1976) (2)
Khami Ruins. Report on Excavations Undertaken for the Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments and Relics, Southern Rhodesia, 1947-1955 (1960) (2)
Swartkrans ape‐man, Paranthropus crassidens. By Robert Broom and J. T. Robinson. Transvaal museum mem. no. 6. xii + 123 pp. Transvaal museum, Pretoria, South Africa (1953) (2)
i%e avfauna of Dursunlu, Turkey, Lower Pleistocene: climate, environment and biogeography (1998) (2)
Cranial base structure in man (1953) (2)
In search of Man: some questions and answers in African archaeology and primatology (1974) (2)
L. G. Freeman: An Appreciation (2000) (1)
European and Northwest African Middle Pleistocene Hominids - eScholarship (1960) (1)
Early man, by F. Clark Howell and the editors of Time-Life Books. (1970) (1)
Inyanga. Prehistoric Settlements in Southern Rhodesia (1959) (1)
Homo habilis in Detail. (1991) (1)
Early Stone Tools. Produced in 1967 by the University of California Extension Media Center, with François Bordes (1968) (1)
The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution . An introduction to the study of paleoanthropology. W. E. Le Gros Clark. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1955. x + 181 pp. Illus. $6. (1956) (1)
The Prehistory of East Africa. Sonia Cole. Macmillan, New York, ed. 2, 1963. 382 pp. Illus. $7.95 (1963) (0)
American Anthropological Association Council Meeting, Saturday, November 21, 1964 Detroit, Michigan (1965) (0)
The Transvaal Ape-Man—Bearing Cave Deposits . Transvaal Museum Memoir No. 11. C. K. Brain. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, Union of South Africa, 1958. 131 pp. (1959) (0)
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Stone Age Races of Northwest Africa. L. Cabot Briggs (1956) (0)
Neanderthals and Emergent Palaeoanthropology 50 Years Ago (2011) (0)
Archaeology and Society. Reconstructing the Prehistoric Past. 2nd edition, revised. Grahame Clark. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1957. 272 pp., frontis., 52 figs., 24 pls., endpaper map. $5.00. (1958) (0)
Book reviewThe pleistocene old world: Regional perspectives: Edited by Olga Soffer (1987) New York and London: Plenum Press, xxi + 380 pp. $39.50. ISBN 0-306-42438-X (1988) (0)
Koobi Fora hominids (1979) (0)
Professor John Desmond Clark Hon. FRSSAf (Foreign) 1916–2002 (2002) (0)
Systematics of Humankind. Palma 2000: an international working group on systematics in human paleontology (2000) (0)
The Human Fossil Record.Volume Three: Brain Endocasts—The Paleoneurological Evidence.ByRalph L Holloway, Douglas C Broadfield,and, Michael S Yuan.Hoboken (New Jersey): Wiley‐Liss. $195.00. xxi + 315 p; ill.; no index. ISBN: 0–471–41823–4. 2004. (2005) (0)
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History December 2007 Number 56 : 38 – 52 THE PALEOECOLOGY AND PALEOGEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT OF LEMUDONG ’ O LOCALITY 1 , A LATE MIOCENE TERRESTRIAL FOSSIL SITE IN SOUTHERN KENYA (2008) (0)
Book Review (2007) (0)
Quaternary studies. Selected papers from IX INQUA Congress, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2–10 December 1973: R. P. Suggate and M. M. Cresswell, Editors. The Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, Bulletin 13, 320 pp., 1975 (1977) (0)
Prehistory and Pleistocene Geology in Cyrenaican Libya. C. B. M. McBurney , R. W. Hey (1956) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man. KENNETH P. OAKLEY (1965) (0)
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Antecedents of Man: An Introduction to the Evolution of the Primates. W. E. Le Gros Clark (1960) (0)
Feature - a Hearth or an Accident (1972) (0)
Report On the Calico Hills Site (1967) (0)
Meeting Prehistoric Men. G. H. R. von Koenigswald. (1957) (0)
Phillip Vallentine Tobias An Appreciation (2005) (0)
Design approach to pressurized water reactor load-change flexibility (1977) (0)
Evolution and Hominisation. Papers to the Theory of Evolution as well as Dating, Classification and Abilities of Human Hominids. Gottfried Kurth, Ed. Second edition. Fischer, Stuttgart, 1968 (U.S. distributor, Abel, Portland, Ore.). xii + 300 pp., illus. $12.50 (1969) (0)
British Quaternary studies. Recent advances: Edited by F. W. Shotton. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 298 pp., $23.00 (1978) (0)
Book Review:Evolutionary Changes to the Primate Skull and Dentition. C. L. B. Lavelle, R. P. Shellis, D. F. G. Poole (1978) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Method in Prehistory: An Introduction to the Discipline of Prehistoric Archaeology with Special Reference to South African Conditions. (1955) (0)
Relics of Ancient Man (1969) (0)
Man's Journey Through Time: A First Step in Physical and Cultural Anthropochronology. L. S. Palmer, Philosophical Library, New York, 1959. 184 pp., 55 figs., 9 tables. (First published by Hutchinson, London, 1957). (1960) (0)
COWA Bibliography, Area 13 - South Africa (1959) (0)
Dating the past; An introduction to geochronology. By Frederick E. Zeuner. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged. 1952. xx + 495 pages and 24 end-plates. Methuen and Co., Ltd., London (1954) (0)
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Olduvai Gorge. Volume 2: The Cranium and Maxillary Dentition of Australopithecus (Zinjanthropus) Boisei. P. V. Tobias. Edited by L. S. B. Leakey (1968) (0)
Early Man and Archeology: The Prehistory of East Africa . Sonia Cole. Macmillan, New York, ed. 2, 1963. 382 pp. Illus. $7.95. (1963) (0)
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Progress and Evolution of Man in Africa. L. S. B. Leakey (1962) (0)
Earliest Man and Environment in Eastern Africa: Review@@@Earliest Man and Environments in the Lake Rudolf Basin: Stratigraphy, Palaeoecology, and Evolution (1978) (0)
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Piltdown Forgery. J. S. Weiner (1956) (0)
Man's evolutionary past. I. (1972) (0)
Hominid sites: Their geologic settings: Edited by George Rapp, Jr., and Carl F. Vondra. Westview Press, Boulder, Colo., 1981, 310 pp (1983) (0)
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (2008) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site. Volume I: The Geology, Palaeoecology and Detailed Stratigraphy of the Excavations. J. D. Clark. (1970) (0)

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