Fossil Metacarpals from Swartkrans The volume also includes a

The volume also includes a section on the formation and coloring of shells followed by a commentary in Pliny's writings about shells

this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work

The front wrapper has an old paper label with the original signature of Gravenhorst

the largest stone monument in the world

This revised second edition corrects many mistakes that were present in the 1955 first edition

Fossil Metacarpals from Swartkrans The volume also includes aPp. (2), 18; 2 full page photo plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Publishers original gray stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, sm folio (12 1 4 x 9 1 4 inches). From the series: Fossil Mammals of Africa, no. 17. Napier describes and compares two hominin metacarpals from Swartkrans Cave; he concludes one metacarpal is assignable to Paranthropus and the other to Telanthropus now called early Homo. Publisher British Museum