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Mary Douglas Leakey
(6 Feb 1913 - 9 Dec 1996)
English archaeologist and paleoanthropologist.
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Science Quotes by Mary Douglas Leakey (1 quote)
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist—musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn. … No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely
— Mary Douglas Leakey
As quoted in Current Biography Yearbook (1985), 259.
Quotes by others about Mary Douglas Leakey (1)
In the early seventies my mother [Mary Leakey] returned to Laetoli, a site in Tanzania that my parents had discovered in the thirties. In 1976, she discovered footprints of ancient hominids. These three-and-a-half-million- year-old footprints provide evidence of bipedality.
In Pamela Weintraub, The Omni Interviews (1984), 60.
See also:
- 6 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Leakey's birth.
- Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings, by Virginia Morell. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
