Louis Leakey: Quick Facts


Facts

Also Known As Louis S. B. Leakey • Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Born August 7, 1903 • Kenya
Died October 1, 1972 (aged 69) • London • England
Notable Family Members spouse Mary Douglas Leakey • son Richard Leakey
Subjects Of Study Kenyapithecus • Proconsul africanus • Australopithecus • Homo habilis

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Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Mary Leakey stands beside a large fiberglass cast of ancient hominid footprints, holding the edge and looking toward the camera.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
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John Garstang
British archaeologist
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
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Dame Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist
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Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist
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Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
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Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
British archaeologist
David George Hogarth
David George Hogarth
British archaeologist
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Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
British archaeologist
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
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Carl Blegen
American archaeologist
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Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
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Li Chi
Chinese archaeologist
Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
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E. G. Squier
American archaeologist
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Ferdinand Keller
Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist