Mary Leakey
Noun
Meaning
English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
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A date of at least 1.95 million years has been obtained for Kromdraai B. Paranthropus boisei was discovered by Mary Leakey on July 17, 1959, at the FLK Bed I site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania (specimen OH 5 ).
Urewe is the name of the site in Kenya brought to prominence through the publication in 1948 of Mary Leakey ’s archaeological findings.