Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (19 November 1937 – 5 October 1985) was a South African archaeologist who specialised in the very early prehistory of Africa, and was one of twin sons born to botanists William Edwyn Isaac and Frances Margaret Leighton. He has been called the most influential Africanist of the last half century, and his papers on human movement and behavior are still cited in studies a quarter of a century later.[1]
He died in 1985 in Yokosuka, Japan due to illness, at the age of 47.[2]
Contributionsedit
Glynn Isaac is best remembered for a series of papers and ideas which attempted to combine the available archeological record with models of both human behavior and a human activity from the standpoint of evolution.[1] In the early 1970s Isaac published on the effect of social networks, gathering, meat eating and other factors on human evolution, and proposed a series of models to examine how groups of humans in the paleolithic would have engaged in acquiring the necessities of life, and interacting with each other. Isaac's models focused on a "home base" and the importance of sexual division of labor on hominid social organization.
Worksedit
The Archaeology of Human Origins, Cambridge University Press.
Olorgesailie: Archaeological Studies of the Middle Lake Basin in Kenya, University of Chicago Press, 1977.
The food-sharing behavior of protohuman hominids. Scientific American238:90-108, 1978.
Koobi Fora Research Project: Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology, Glynn Ll. Isaac (Editor), et al., Clarendon Press, 1997.
Human Origins: Louis Leakey and the East African Evidence, Glynn Ll. Isaac, Elizabeth Richards McCown, WA Benjamin, 1976.
Darvill, T (ed.) (2003). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN0-19-280005-1.
Jeanne Sept and David Pilbeam, Eds., "Casting the Net Wide," Oxbow Books, 2011. ISBN978-1-84217-454-8.
Notesedit
^ abJeanne Sept and David Pilbeam, Eds, "Casting the Net Wide," Oxbow Books, 2011.
^Dean R. Gerstein and R. Duncan Luce (1988): The Behavioral and Social Sciences
External linksedit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Glynn Isaac.
Online biography
, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
December 12, 2023
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