PREFACE TO VoLuiviEs 1 AND 2 xi
cooperation was obviously essential, are listed indi-
vidully by site entry. We are more than grateful to all
of them. Except where otherwise indicated, all pho-
tographs are by Jeffrey Schwartz, and appear by per-
mission of the curator(s) involved. We thank Petica
Barry for the black-and-white drawings, Ken Mow-
bray for images of Shanidar 1 and 5 casts, and those
of Jebel Irhoud 2 and Sale and Ken Mowbray and
Bridget Thomas for the maps.
Many other friends and colleagues have also been
indispensable in making these volumes a reality. Our
initial editor at Wiley, Robert Harington, enthusiasti-
cally embraced the notion of this series, which could
not have come to fruition without the commitment
of Luna Han, who steered it through to completion.
Also at Wiley, Joe Ingram, Kristin Cooke, and nu-
merous other individuals at all stages of production
and marketing deserve our warmest appreciation,
while at the American Museum of Natural History,
Ken Mowbray and Shara Bailey rendered indispens-
able help, and at the University of Pittsburgh,
Michelle Ray and Kolleen Mitchell of Photographic
Services undertook the painstaking task of scanning
the black and white negatives for Volume 2 and en-
hancing each image to bring out as much detail as
possible. To all these individuals we offer our warmest
thanks. In addition to our personal financial contri-
butions, additional funding for this project was made
through funds administered by the Department of
Anthropology, American Museum of Natural His-
tory, as well as grants from the L. s. B. Leakey Foun-
dation, John Wiley & Sons, Nevraumont Publishing
Co., and at the University of Pittsburgh, The Central
Research Development Fund, the University Center
for International Study, and the Nationality Rooms
Programs (J. G. Bowman).
Finally, it should be noted that no paleoanthro-
pologists embarking on a project such as this one
could ever ignore the fact that they are standing on
the shoulders of some very illustrious predecessors.
Notable among these forerunners are the authors and
editors of the Catalogue des Hommes Fossiles, edited by
H. V. Vallois and H. L. Movius and published in
1953; the three volumes of the Catalogue of Fossil
Hominids, edited by K. F'. Oakley, B. G. Campbell,
and T. I. Molleson and published and revised between
1967 and 1977; and M. H. Day's multi-edition Guide
to Fossil Man, which first appeared in 1965. The
Catalogue has been very usefully updated in recent
years by the several volumes of Hominid Remains: An
Up-Date, edited by Rosine Orban and Patrick Semal
and published by the Royal Belgian Institute of
Natural Sciences in Brussels. None of these works
had exactly the same intentions as this one; for exam-
ple, the Catalogue of Fossil Hominids aimed at compre-
hensiveness of sites but ignored morphology and
illustration, whereas the Guide to Fossil Man did
provide some general morphological information and
illustration but was highly selective in site choice.
Nevertheless, we are conscious that we are following a
road that has already been partly trodden, and that
our task has thereby been rendered easier.Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Ian Tattersall