Integrative Paths to the Past: Paleoanthropological Advances in Honor of F. Clark Howell, edited by Robert S. Corrnccini and Russell L. Ciochon, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1994.

F. Clark Howell retired from the faculty of the Universityof California at Berkeley in 1991. At Berkeley, and earlier while at the University ofChicago, he was responsible for training a number of specialists in human bioculturalevolution, or palaeoanthropology. In fact, Howell is credited with developing theconcept of palaeoanthropology (and defining the term itself); he certainly created theframework for this integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to humanevolution. For his retirement, former students and colleaguescollaborated to produce this volume. Some of the papers were presented at a one daysymposium reviewing the highlights of Howell's career along with current researchdirections in palaeoanthropology. It took place during the annual meeting of theAmerican Anthropological Association held in San Francisco in 1992. Bowell's long timecolleague J. Desmond Clark gave the distinguished lecture at the same meeting. Duringhis career, Howell directed excavations at Isimilain Tanzania, as well as Torralba andAmbrona in Spain (all extensive Acheulean localities), but is best known for his workwest of the Omo River in southern Ethiopia. It was there during the 1960s and 1970s thathe developed the methods and approaches which would come to characterize the best ofpalaeoanthropological research