Historical anthropology, and the discovery of ancient Hominid Fossils such as the Zinjanthropus- sometimes called Ape-man. Dr. Leakey ranks as an antrhopologist.
Louis Leakey (1903-1972) and Mary (1913-1996) Leakey were archeologists (scientists who study the remains of ancient human cultures) who made significant findings in East Africa.
Mary Leakey is famous for her finds in Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli which included the first skull of a fossil ape in 1959 and the discovery of an 89 foot trail of early human footprints which dated...
He was a Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. (Wikipedia)
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