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Also Known As Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey • Louis S. B. Leakey
Born August 7, 1903 • Kenya
Died October 1, 1972 (aged 69) • London • England
Notable Family Members spouse Mary Douglas Leakey • son Richard Leakey
Subjects Of Study Kenyapithecus • Proconsul africanus • Australopithecus • Homo habilis

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Leakey, Mary; Leakey, Louis
Paranthropus boisei skull
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Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Leakey, Mary
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
John Garstang
British archaeologist
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
Dame Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist
Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist
Sir Max Mallowan
British archaeologist
Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
British archaeologist
David George Hogarth
David George Hogarth
British archaeologist
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
British archaeologist
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
Carl Blegen
American archaeologist
Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
Li Chi
Chinese archaeologist
E. G. Squier
American archaeologist
Ferdinand Keller
Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist