Garniss H. Curtis

Garniss Curtis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the University of California, Berkeley and Founder of the Berkeley Geochronology Center BGC. A colleague of the late Louis Leakey, in 1961 he determined the age (1.85 my) of the famous Zinjanthropus fossil which rocked the anthropological world. Over the next few decades Prof. Curtis has made many additional contributions to the chronology of human evolution.

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Swisher, C.C., III , Rink, W.J., Anton, S.C., Schwarcz, H.P., Curtis, G.H., Suprijo, A. and Widiasmoro, 1996. Latest Homo Erectus of Java; Potential Contemporaneity with Homo Sapiens in Southeast Asia. Science, 274(5294): 1870-1874.

Curtis, G.H., 1995. Deterioration of the Royal Tombs. In: R.H. Wilkinson (Editor), Valley of the Sun Kings: New Explorations in the Tombs of the Pharaohs. U. of Arizona Egyptian Expeditions, Tucson, pp. 129-133.

Renne, P.R., Deino, A.L., Walter, R.C., Turrin, B.D., C.Swisher, C.C., III, Becker, T.A., Curtis, G.H., Sharp, W.D. and Jaouni, A., 1994. Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisoptopic time. Geology, 22(9): 783-786.

Swisher, C.C., III, Curtis, G.H., Jacob, T., Getty, A.G., Suprijo, A. and Widiasmoro, 1994. Age of the Earliest Known Hominids in Java, Indonesia. Science, 263: 1118-1121.

Hill, A., Ward, S., Deino, A.L., Curtis, G.H. and Drake, R., 1992. Earliest Homo. Nature, 355(6362): 719-722.