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	Rocky Road: Mary Leakey
		When Mary Leakey (originally Mary Nicol) was little, her artistic father took her to see ancient cave paintings in France, inspiring her interest in both art and early humans.
		The passion that characterized Mary's early marriage to Louis Leakey gradually waned, and the couple assumed a businesslike relationship.
		In 1996, Mary Leakey died at the age of 83.
	www.strangescience.net /leakey.htm (615 words)

	Mary Leakey
		Mary's father knew a man by the name of Howard Carter, who was an archaeologist in Egypt, this intrigued Mary's father and exposed Mary to archaeology at a young age.
		Mary’s first opportunity to enter the field occurred when she constantly wrote letters to archaeologists to allow her to dig with them, Mary realizing this is the only way she would get experience in the field.
		Mary’s first trip to the United States came in March of 1962, when she and Louis traveled to Washington to jointly receive the Gold Hubbard Medal which was the highest honor from the National Geographic Society.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/klmno/leakey_mary.html (839 words)

	Mary Leakey Biography
		Mary Leakey was a major figure in the uncovering of East African prehistory, best known for her excavations (digging for fossils) of some of the earliest members of the human family, their footprints, and their artifacts (any tools, weapons, or other items made by humans).
		In spite of Mary Leaky's primary interest in art and artifacts, Mary Leakey was best known for her amazing ability to find fossils and for her excavations at two of the most famous hominid (dealing with any of the primate families) fossil sites in East Africa—Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli, both in Tanzania.
		Mary Leakey, in addition to her research, found herself assuming many of Louis's more public roles after she was widowed in 1972.
	www.notablebiographies.com /Ki-Lo/Leakey-Mary.html (1082 words)

	Mary Leakey at AllExperts
		Mary Leakey (February 6 1913 – December 9 1996) was a British archaeologist, who, along with others, discovered the first skull of a fossil ape on Rusinga Island.
		Mary Leakey was born Mary Nicol on February 6, 1913 in London, England.
		Mary's father died in 1926 and her mother placed her in a Catholic convent from which she was repeatedly expelled.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/mary_leakey.htm (576 words)

	Mary Leakey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mary Leakey was born Mary Nicol on February 6, 1913 in London, England.
		Mary's father died in 1926 and her mother placed her in a Catholic convent from which she was repeatedly expelled.
		Mary died on December 9, 1996 at the age of 83.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Leakey (537 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Mary Leakey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mary Leakey (February 6, 1913 – December 9, 1996) was a British physical anthropologist, who, along with others, discovered the first skull of a fossil ape on Rusinga Island.
		Mary's father died in 1926 and her mother placed her in a Catholic convent from where she was repeatedly expelled.
		Mary and Louis were jointly awarded the Stopes Medal from the Geological Association in 1955.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Mary_Leakey (585 words)

	Primate Info Net: Mary Leakey, archaeologist and anthropologist
		MARY LEAKEY was the scientific anchor without which her husband, the anthropologist Louis Leakey, might have been dismissed as a mere controversialist with an exotic private life.
		Leakey stood up from her work, lit a cigar and announced, "Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece." She was at last sure that a hominid had left this print and a trail of prints extending more than 75 feet across the plain.
		Leakey wrote that after an earlier major find they "cast aside care" and that was how their son Philip "came to join our family." The 1959 discovery turned out to be a 1.8 million-year-old fossil known as the "nutcracker man" because of its huge jaws and molar teeth.
	pin.primate.wisc.edu /edu/careers/leakey.html (2809 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Mary Leakey: Unearthing History -- Editors' Note: Mary ...
		Mary Leakey, one of the world's most renowned hunters of early human fossils, died in Nairobi on December 9, 1996, at the age of 83.
		Leakey is as famous for her precision, her love of strong tobacco--half coronas, preferably Dutch--and her short answers as she is for some of the most significant archaeological and anthropological finds of this century.
		Leakey was born in England, raised in large part in France and appears to have been independent, exacting and abhorrent of tradition from her very beginnings.
	sciam.com /article.cfm?articleID=0006E1CC-7860-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21 (807 words)

	Mary Leakey
		Mary's side of the story was the schools were simply "wholly unconnected with the realities of life".
		Mary and Louis were married soon after and began their work together in Africa.
		She died in 1996 at the age of eighty-three, leaving the discipline of anthropology with the legacy of her example for scientific rigor adn meticulousness, and boundless patience and persistence.
	www.nndb.com /people/372/000094090 (875 words)

	Newsletter 12.1 Spring 1997 (Conservation at the Getty)
		Matriarch of the famed Leakey family, discoverer of innumerable traces of humankind's origins, recipient of honors and degrees from numerous universities, trenchant and acerbic, generous and steadfast to those in whom she believed, Mary was revered—but she was also known as a determined and forceful personality to be reckoned with.
		Mary Leakey in 1996, comparing a portion of the Laetoli trackway with a replica made from a cast of the trackway molded when she originally excavated the site in the late 1970s.
		Mary Leakey with a tribeswoman in 1996 during a meeting with the local Maasai to discuss the Laetoli project.
	getty.edu /conservation/publications/newsletters/12_1/gcinews10.html (748 words)

	Mary Leakey Relationships plus Mary Leakey and You
		Mary Leakey feels comfortable in an atmosphere that is open and experimental, and she has little taste for convention and tradition.
		Mary Leakey has a positive emotional outlook and cultivating spiritual relationships with others is important to her.
		Mary Leakey tends to be on the defensive and fear rejection and lack of acceptance.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Mary_Leakey.asp (817 words)

	The Leakey Foundation - Mary Leakey
		Mary Douglas Leakey was one of the world's most renowned hunters of early human fossils, credited with many discoveries that have changed the way scientists conceive human evolution.
		Together with her husband, Louis S. Leakey, she is considered to be a preeminent contributor to the field of human origins.
		Mary Douglas Nicols was born in 1913 to Erskine Nicol, a landscape artist of Scottish descent and Cecilia Frere of East Anglia.
	www.leakeyfoundation.org /foundation/f1_3.jsp (730 words)

	Mary Leakey Biography and Summary
		Mary Leakey was born Mary Douglas Nicol on February 6, 1913, in London.
		Mary Douglas Leakey (1913-1996) was a major figure in the uncovering of East African prehistory, best known for her excavations of some of the earliest members of the human family, their footprints, and their artifacts.
		For many years Mary Leakey lived in the shadow of her husband, Louis Leakey, whose reputation, coupled with the prejudices of the time, led him to be credited with some of his wife's discoveries in the field of early human archaeology.
	www.bookrags.com /Mary_Leakey (318 words)

	Mary Leakey: Unearthing History: Scientific American
		Mary Leakey, one of the world's most renowned hunters of early human fossils, died in Nairobi on December 9, 1996, at the age of 83.
		Leakey is as famous for her precision, her love of strong tobacco--half coronas, preferably Dutch--and her short answers as she is for some of the most significant archaeological and anthropological finds of this century.
		Leakey was born in England, raised in large part in France and appears to have been independent, exacting and abhorrent of tradition from her very beginnings.
	www.sciam.com /article.cfm?articleID=0006E1CC-7860-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21 (771 words)

	Mary Leakey - Schlauweb
		Mary wurde jedoch wegen Aufsässigkeit mehrfach der Schule verwiesen, was sie später damit begründete, dass die Schule "vollkommen unverbunden mit dem wirklichen Leben" gewesen sei.
		Sie verliebten sich ineinander, Mary begleitete ihn auf seiner nächsten Entdeckungsreise nach Tansania und zog anschließend bei Louis ein.
		Mary Leakey deutete sie als Spuren von Individuen der Gattung Homo, sonstige Persönlichkeit (u.a.
	www.schlauweb.de /Mary_Leakey (1174 words)

	Mary (Douglas) Leakey Biography - Biography.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mary Leakey is best known for her discoveries in Africa, which advanced our understanding of the origins of humankind.
		Leakey used this talent as her entry into the field of archaeology; she served as an illustrator at a dig in England when she was only seventeen.
		Mary Leakey died on December 9, 1996, in Nairobi, Kenya.
	www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=9376051 (379 words)

	Louis Leakey
		Richard Leakey and his wife, Maeve, sustain a family legacy of research that is now, with the work of their daughter Louise, three generations deep.
		Among Leakey's academic protegees were Dian Fossey, who studied mountain gorillas, and Jane Goodall, who became famous for her studies of the behavior of chimpanzees.
		Mary Leakey died in Nairobi on December 9, 1996, at the age of 83.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /leakey.htm (1104 words)

	TIME 100: The Leakey Family
		The synergy of Louis and Mary's union was obvious from the outset.
		Mary preferred to carefully evaluate scientific evidence before reaching any conclusions; Louis, on the other hand, was often impulsive and cavalier in his proclamations.
		It was Mary's 1959 discovery of the Zinjanthropus cranium at Olduvai that captured worldwide attention and made the Leakeys a household name.
	www.time.com /time/time100/scientist/profile/leakey.html (552 words)

	Mary Leakey
		Mary Leakey describes the Laetoli footprints as "perhaps the most remarkable finds I have made in my whole career." Because the footprints were so humanlike, she felt they could only have been left by one of our direct ancestors.
		Mary Leakey, the 83-year-old widow of paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, came to the gathering from her home in Nairobi, Kenya, for a last glimpse of the footprints she first saw 18 years ago.
		Mary's knuckle walking footprints, a water hole and evidence of a panicky exodus which she had observed the year before were questioned.
	www.ntz.info /gen/n00335.html (11622 words)

	AllRefer.com - Mary Douglas Leakey (Anthropology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		London as Mary Douglas Nichol; wife of Louis Leakey and mother of Richard Leakey.
		Several years after she met Louis Leakey in England she began work with him at Olduvai Gorge (now in Tanzania).
		Mary Leakey employed her artistic talents in her book Africa's Vanishing Art: The Rock Paintings of Tanzania (1983).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Leakey-M.html (348 words)

	Mary Leakey
		Mary spent much of her early childhood in Europe, especially in the Dordogne, a region abundant in prehistoric cave art and archaeological sites.
		In early October 1948, Mary discovered the skull and jaws of an apelike creature called Proconsul Africanus, the first skull of a fossil ape ever to be found and the first skull of a possible ancestor of humans and modern apes.
		Also shedding light on the Leakey family is the interview with Richard Leakey (Mary Leakey's son), Conversations: Richard Leakey (Interviewed by Scott Harris).
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/evans/his135/events/Leakey96/Leakey.htm (950 words)

	Louis Leakey - Discovering the Secrets of Humankind's Past
		Louis Leakey was born to be an archaeologist, for his childhood in Africa truly prepared him for the field life he would later lead.
		On Leakey’s return, however, he found the iron markers he used to mark the spots where the skulls were found to be stolen, with only a photograph to show the area of the site.
		Louis and Mary renewed their explorations of the Olduvai site in 1951, and for several years searched for the man that created the handaxes and tools, the "Chellean" man. In 1959, they began to find indications of what they were looking for until finally they discovered an exciting new skeleton.
	utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/biography/arybios97/weimanbio.html (2514 words)

	Mary Leakey - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mary Leakey - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The daughter of a landscape painter, Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey was born in...
		In this 1979 National Geographic article anthropologist Mary Leakey describes her famous discovery of hominid footprints at Laetoli in Tanzania....
	encarta.msn.com /Mary_Leakey.html (114 words)

	Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey 1913-1996
		Until her recent death on December 9, 1996, at age 83, Mary spent most of her days in the fields of Africa in pursuit of such archaeological treasures, sorting through ancient stone tools, recording prehistoric rock paintings, and hunting for fossil clues that might help piece together the mystery of mankind's evolution.
		Mary Douglas Nicol was born on February 6, 1913 in London to Erskine Edward Nicol, a landscape painter, and Cecilia Marion Frere, an amateur artist.
		Mary later explained, "The discovery of the trails was immensely exciting-something so extraordinary that I could hardly take it in or comprehend its implications for some while." After their excavation, Mary finished her stay at Laetoli, ending also the most memorable stage of her archaeological career.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/biography/arybios97/dentebio.html (2284 words)

	Biographies: Mary Leakey
		Mary Douglas Nicol was born on February 6, 1913.
		Her father, Erskine Nicol, was a popular landscape artist, and Mary spent much of her childhood in Europe, especially in the Dordogne and at Les Eyzies, a region rich in prehistoric art and archaeological sites, topics in which Mary became interested.
		In 1959, Mary found the "Zinjanthropus" (Australopithecus boisei) fossil which was to propel the Leakey family to worldwide fame.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/mleakey.html (458 words)

	CNN - Archeologist Mary Leakey dies at 83 - Dec. 9, 1996
		NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- Renowned British archeologist Mary Leakey died Monday, leaving it to those who came after her to explore the mysteries of the origins of mankind.
		In 1947 while working in Kenya, Leakey and her husband, archeologist Louis Leakey, discovered the skull of Proconsul africanus, an apelike ancestor of both apes and early humans that lived 25 million years ago.
		Leakey's son Richard Leakey, famous in his own right as a paleontologist and wildlife conservationist, said his mother died peacefully in Nairobi.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9612/09/leakey.obit (460 words)

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