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 1959
 * Marcel Griaule
 * F.W. Hodge
 * Rafael Karsten
 * Siegfried Nadel
 * Edward Winslow Gifford
 * Paul Radin