1950s in anthropology
# 1950s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1950–1959

## Events

1959

* Mary Leakey discovers the first Paranthropus boisei cranium

## Publications

1956

* Nuer Religion by E. E. Evans-Pritchard

1959

* Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans, by Fredrik Barth
* The Inland Whale, by Theodora Kroeber

## Deaths

1956

* Marcel Griaule
* F.W. Hodge
* Rafael Karsten
* Siegfried Nadel

1959

* Edward Winslow Gifford
* Paul Radin
