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Kanam may refer to:
- Kanam, a village in the Indian state of Kerala
- Kanam, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Plateau State
- Barbara Kanam - popular Congolese singer
Kanam is a small place in Kottayam district of Kerala. It is approximately 25 km from Kottayam Town on the way to Kumily road, 2 km from Kodungoor Junction ( Vazhoor).
Usage examples of "kanam".
And not far away, at Kanam, Louis Leakey, according to a commission of scientists, discovered a fully human jaw in Early Pleistocene sediments, equivalent in age to Bed I.
Furthermore, he had made additional discoveries in Kenya, at Kanam and Kanjera.
In 1932, Louis Leakey announced discoveries at Kanam and Kanjera, near Lake Victoria in western Kenya.
The Kanam jaw and Kanjera skulls, he believed, provided good evidence of Homo sapiens in the Early and Middle Pleistocene.
Leakey thought the jaw from the Early Pleistocene Kanam formation was much like that of Homo sapiens, and he announced its discovery in a letter to Nature.
For Leakey, the Kanam and Kanjera fossils showed that a hominid close to the modern human type had existed at the time of Java man and Beijing man, or even earlier.
The geology committee concluded that the Kanjera and Kanam human fossils were as old as the beds in which they were found.
The paleontology committee said the Kanam beds were Early Pleistocene, whereas the Kanjera beds were no more recent than Middle Pleistocene.
The archeology committee noted the presence at both Kanam and Kanjera of stone tools in the same beds where the human fossils had been found.
About the Kanam jaw, the anatomy experts said it was unusual in some respects.
Shortly after the 1933 conference gave Leakey its vote of confidence, geologist Percy Boswell began to question the age of the Kanam and Kanjera fossils.
Scientists have described the Kanam jaw, with its modern chin structure, in a multiplicity of ways.
Sir Arthur Keith, a leading British anthropologist, also considered the Kanam jaw Homo sapiens.
In 1962, Philip Tobias said the Kanam jaw most closely resembled a late Middle Pleistocene jaw from Rabat in Morocco, and Late Pleistocene jaws such as those from the Cave of Hearths in South Africa and Dire-Dawa in Ethiopia.
In 1960, Louis Leakey, retreating from his earlier view that the Kanam jaw was sapiens-like, said it represented a female Zinjanthropus.