Spotlight:Louis Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist, was born on this date in 1903. Having grown up in Kenya, Leakey became interested in the study of African culture, and he unearthed fossils that showed that humans had been around for much longer than had been thought. His wife, Mary Leakey, found a hominid fossil (Zinjanthropus) believed to be 1,750,000 years old, in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in 1959. Two years later, Leakey discovered another fossil (Homo habilis) at Olduvai, which he believed to be a more direct ancestor of Homo sapiens.
Quote:"Anthropology holds up a great mirror to man and lets him look at himself in his infinite variety." – Clyde Kluckhohn
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Spotlight: Louis Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist, was born on this date in 1903. Having grown up in Kenya, Leakey became interested in the study of African culture, and he unearthed fossils that showed that humans had been around for much longer than had been thought. His wife, Mary Leakey, found a hominid fossil (Zinjanthropus) believed to be 1,750,000 years old, in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in 1959. Two years later, Leakey discovered another fossil (Homo habilis) at Olduvai, which he believed to be a more direct ancestor of Homo sapiens.
