“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”
Quote by Mary Leakey
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Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey was an accomplished archaeologist renowned for her research on early human fossils in East Africa. She and her husband Louis Leakey discovered many significant fossils, including early forms of Homo erectus and Neanderthals, profoundly influencing our understanding of human origins and evolution. more