Kenneth Page Oakley (7 April 1911 – 2 November 1981) was an English physical anthropologist, paleontologist and geologist. Oakley, known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content, was instrumental in the exposure in the 1950s of the Piltdown Man hoax. Oakley was born and died in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Publications: Piltdown man, Bobbs-Merrill, 1955 Man the Tool-Maker, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 1949, 6th edition 1972 The succession of life through geological time, British Museum, 1967 Frameworks for dating fossil man, Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 3rd ed, 1969 Catalogue of Fossil Hominids: Africa, British Museum, 1977 Catalogue of Fossil Hominids: Americas, Asia, Australia, Smithsonian Institution Proceedings, 1981 Relative dating of the fossil hominids of Europe, British Museum, 1980