Mary Leakey nasceu há cento e onze anos...

 

Mary Leakey (London, 6 February 1913 – Nairobi, 9 December 1996) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines. She developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She also discovered the Laetoli footprints. In 1960 she became director of excavation at Olduvai and subsequently took it over, building her own staff. After the death of her husband she became a leading palaeoanthropologist, helping to establish the Leakey tradition by training her son, Richard, in the field.

   

Replica of an Australopithecus boisei skull discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959

     

Replica of Laetoli footprints, exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan

   

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Mary Leakey nasceu há cento e dez anos

   

Mary Leakey (London, 6 February 1913 – Nairobi, 9 December 1996) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines. She developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She also discovered the Laetoli footprints. In 1960 she became director of excavation at Olduvai and subsequently took it over, building her own staff. After the death of her husband she became a leading palaeoanthropologist, helping to establish the Leakey tradition by training her son, Richard, in the field.

   

Replica of an Australopithecus boisei skull discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959

     

Replica of Laetoli footprints, exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan

   

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Mary Leakey nasceu há 109 anos

   

Mary Leakey (London, 6 February 1913 – Nairobi, 9 December 1996) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines. She developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She also discovered the Laetoli footprints. In 1960 she became director of excavation at Olduvai and subsequently took it over, building her own staff. After the death of her husband she became a leading palaeoanthropologist, helping to establish the Leakey tradition by training her son, Richard, in the field.

   

Replica of an Australopithecus boisei skull discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959

     

Replica of Laetoli footprints, exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan

   

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Mary Leakey nasceu há 108 anos

Mary and Louis Leakey at Olduvai Gorge

  

Mary Leakey (London, 6 February 1913 – Nairobi, 9 December 1996) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines. She developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She also discovered the Laetoli footprints. In 1960 she became director of excavation at Olduvai and subsequently took it over, building her own staff. After the death of her husband she became a leading palaeoanthropologist, helping to establish the Leakey tradition by training her son, Richard, in the field.

   

Replica of an Australopithecus boisei skull discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959

     

Replica of Laetoli footprints, exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan

   

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Mary Leakey nasceu há 106 anos

Mary Leakey (London, 6 February 1913 – Nairobi, 9 December 1996) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines. She developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She also discovered the Laetoli footprints. In 1960 she became director of excavation at Olduvai and subsequently took it over, building her own staff. After the death of her husband she became a leading palaeoanthropologist, helping to establish the Leakey tradition by training her son, Richard, in the field.

Replica of an Australopithecus boisei skull discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959

  

Replica of Laetoli footprints, exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan

 

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Mary Leakey nasceu há 101 anos

Mary Leakey (6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines. She developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She also discovered the Laetoli footprints. In 1960 she became director of excavation at Olduvai and subsequently took it over, building her own staff. After the death of her husband she became a leading palaeoanthropologist, helping to establish the Leakey tradition by training her son, Richard, in the field.

Replica of an Australopithecus boisei skull discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959

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Os Leakey e o Google Doodle de hoje

Google Doodle de 06.02.2013 - 100º aniversário do nascimento de Mary Leakey

Passam hoje, conforme referimos em post anterior, um século desde o nascimento de Mary Leakey, a matriarca da família que tantas descobertas fez na área da Paleoantropologia. Com o marido, Louis Leakey e o filho, Richard Leakey, a quem tive a honra de ver e ouvir numa palestra que realizou em Lisboa nos finais dos anos oitenta, bem como a neta, Louise Leakey, também já a trabalhar na área científica da família, assim como os/as Anjos de Leakey (Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey e Birutė Galdikas) são responsáveis pela mudança como vemos a evolução dos hominídeos - daí acharmos perfeitamente justa esta homenagem...