Word: leakey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veteran Olduvai Fossil-Hunter Louis S. B. Leakey. 57. reports that he and his family last year discovered what he calls, using a phrase familiar among anthropologists, "earliest man." Leakey's earliest man is described as more than 600,000 years old. or some 100,000 years older than the Peking man or Java man. Says Leakey, a broad, rumpled, sometime Cambridge don: "My 19-year-old son Jonathan wandered across a slope during a pause in our other work at Olduvai and picked up a small fragment of animal jaw. 'You've got a saber-toothed...
Skull & Collarbone. Working for seven months on hands and knees, their eyes just a few inches from the ground, Leakey, his wife and his son sifted the yellow earth and painstakingly uncovered bones, using camel's hair brushes and dental picks to prevent them from breaking. They found remains of two humans-a child thought to be about eleven and an adult, both of undetermined sex. From the child, there were skull fragments, a jawbone, bones from a hand and foot and a collarbone. Left from the ancient adult were some teeth, skull fragments and a collarbone...
...find is the latest of many in the snake-infested Olduvai. Leakey, a British missionary's son who was born in a wattle hut in neighboring Kenya and grew up with Kikuyu children, had been scouring the gorge since 1931. Over the years he has unearthed the bones of an ancient pig as big as a rhino, a six-foot-tall sheep, a twelve-foot-tall bird and the flat-topped skull of the erect "Nutcracker man." so named because of his huge molars that suggested that he lived on nuts and tough vegetation. Leakey put the Nutcracker...