Mary Leakey

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Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey Death

Mary passed away on December 9, 1996 at the age of 83.

Mary Leakey death quick facts:
  • When did Mary Leakey die?

    December 9, 1996
  • How old was Mary Leakey when died?

    83

Mary Leakey Birthday and Date of Death

Mary Leakey was born on February 6, 1913 and died on December 9, 1996. Mary was 83 years old at the time of death.

Birthday: February 6, 1913
Date of Death: December 9, 1996
Age at Death: 83

Mary Leakey - Biography

Mary Leakey (6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, in the Olduvai Gorge, in Tanzania, East Africa; they uncovered fossils there of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group (see Terminology, for a discussion of "hominine" and related, similar terms). Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She discovered the Laetoli footprints, and at the Laetoli site she discovered hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.

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