English archaeologist and anthropologist (born 1913)

Mary Leakey

Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai.

Born

1913

February 6

Died

1996

Era

1910s

Country

—

About

Mary, in brief

Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Life timeline

Key dates

  1. 1913 Born
  2. 1996 Died

Also on February 6

What else happened on this day, through history

See all of February 6 →

The world in 1913

When Mary arrived

Read the year 1913 →

Same-day contemporaries

Also born on February 6

Antoine Wright 1984– American basketball player Babe Ruth 1895–1948 American baseball player and coach (born 1895) Cam Cameron 1961– American football player and coach Geo Bogza 1908– Romanian poet and journalist (died 1993) Lothar-Günther Buchheim 1918– German author and painter (died 2007) Robert Maillart 1872–1940 Swiss civil engineer (born 1872)

See everything on February 6 →

Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1913

Al Suomi 1913–2014 American ice hockey player and referee (died 2014) Albert Ellis 1913–2007 American psychologist and author (born 1913) Barbara Pym 1913–1980 English author (born 1913) Bear Bryant 1913–1983 American football player and coach (born 1913) Bill Shankly 1913–1981 Scottish footballer and manager (died 1981) Burt Lancaster 1913–1994 American actor (died 1994) Carl F. H. Henry 1913– American theologian and publisher (died 2003) Cho Ki-chon 1913–1951 North Korean poet (born 1913) Ellen Albertini Dow 1913–2015 American actress (born 1913)

Read about the year 1913 →

Keep going

More to explore

Mary's birthday February 6 Mary's zodiac Aquarius When Mary arrived 1913