mary leakey

     

This British scientist titled her 1984 autobiography "Disclosing The Past"

Trivia about mary leakey

  • At the Olduvai Gorge in 1959, she & hubby Louis found a 1.75 million-year-old Australopithecus boisei skull
  • In 1959 she found the skull of a human-like creature that lived about 1.75 million years ago in Olduvai Gorge
  • In the 1950s she studied Tanzanian rock paintings that formed the basis of her later book "Africa's Vanishing Art"
  • This noted anthropologist passed away in Nairobi in 1996
  • In 1948 she discovered the skull of Proconsul africanus

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