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...also close kin to a pygmy-sized creature called Homo Habilis. Last week Leakey's anthropologist wife, Mary, unveiled the most intact habilis skull ever found. It was dug up in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, and is about 1,750,000 years...
Among fellow anthropologists, Britain's L.S.B. Leakey is revered-with reservations. Since 1931 he has been excavating the Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika, which is perhaps the richest known deposit of human and prehuman fossils. The site of Leakey's excavations was once a small lake that gradually filled and dried up, preserving in stone the bones of many creatures, some of them primates, that lived on its shores. Much later, a river cut a canyon through the lake bed, bringing the bones to light...
...years ago. a German entomologist named Kattwinkel tumbled off a rocky ledge and nearly killed himself. When he regained his senses, he found himself in an anthropologist's dream world: an erosion-created rift with layer after layer of fossils, bones and ancient artifacts. The find was named Olduvai Gorge, and Kattwinkel's heirs ever since have been scrambling up and down its sun-baked sides in search of clues to man's earliest awakening...
...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...
...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...