Background
Leakey, Mary Douglas was born on February 6, 1913. Daughter of Erskine Edward and Cecilia Marion (Frere) Nicol.
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Olduvai Groge is a valley in the Serengeti Plains at the western margin of the Eastern Rift Valley in northern Tanzania. The formations discussed in this volume, Beds I and II, were deposited in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene and have yielded large quantities of the remains of early man, in the form of bones and stone tools and evidence of the environment in which they lived. Bed I, in which remains of Australopithecus boisei and Homo habilis have been found, is firmly dated between 1.9 million years for the lowest level and 1.65 million years for a level below the top. This third volume describes the excavations. In Part I, starting with the lowest levels and devoting a chapter to each main level, Dr Leakey describes the actual process of excavation and the finding of the principal remains. In Part II, Dr Leakey describes the circumstances of the discovery of the hominid skeletal remains. These range from purposive excavation to accidental discovery while collecting small stones for mixing in concrete. Finally, mammalian bones, as tools and as food remains are discussed.
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Leakey, Mary Douglas was born on February 6, 1913. Daughter of Erskine Edward and Cecilia Marion (Frere) Nicol.
Student private schools. Honorary Doctor of Science, University Witwatersrand, 1968. Honorary Doctor of Science, Western Michigan University, 1980.
Honorary Doctor of Science, University Chicago, 1981. Honorary Doctor of Science, Yale University, 1976. Honorary Doctor of Science, University Cambridge, 1987.
Doctor of Literature (honorary), University Oxford, 1981. Doctor of Literature (honorary), Emory University, 1988. Doctor of Literature (honorary), Massachusetts University, 1988.
Doctor of Literature (honorary), Brown University, 1990. Doctor of Literature (honorary), Columbia University, 1991.
Director of Research, Olduvai Gorge Excavations, Tanzania.
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Member Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (honorary), American Academy Arts and Sciences (associate), National Academy of Sciences (foreign).
Married Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey in 1936 (died in 1972).