Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

From there, she obtained work as a secretary, and acting on her friend's advice she telephoned Louis Leakey, a Kenyan archaeologist and paleontologist, with no other thought than to make an appointment to discuss animals.

The Oldowan industry is named after discoveries made in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania in east Africa by the Leakey family, primarily Mary Leakey, but also her husband Louis and their son, Richard.

For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines.

After the death of her husband she became a leading palaeoanthropologist, helping to establish the Leakey tradition by training her son, Richard, in the field.

Mary Leakey was a direct descendant of antiquarian, John Frere, and cousin to archaeologist, Sheppard Frere, on her mother's side.

Mary died on 9 December 1996 at the age of 83, a renowned palaeoanthropologist, who had not only conducted significant research of her own, but had been invaluable to the research careers of her husband Louis Leakey and their sons Richard, Philip and Jonathan.

Leakey served her apprenticeship in archaeology under Dorothy Liddell at Hembury in Devon, England, 1930-1934, for whom she also did illustrations.

From 1976 to 1981 Leakey and her staff worked to uncover the Laetoli hominid footprint trail which was left in volcanic ashes some 3. 6 million years ago.

It was there, as a graduate student, she first met famed Kenyan paleontologist Louis Leakey and expressed her desire to study orangutans in their natural habitats.

Determined to study and understand the world of the elusive " red ape ", Galdikas convinced Leakey to help orchestrate her endeavor, despite his initial reservations.

Leakey and the National Geographic Society helped Galdikas initially set up her research camp to conduct field study on orangutans in Borneo.

In it, Galdikas describes her experiences at Camp Leakey and efforts to rehabilitate ex-captive orangutans and release them into the Borneo rainforest.

In 1995, Meave Leakey and her associates, taking note of differences between Australopithecus afarensis and the new finds, assigned them to a new species, A. anamensis, deriving its name from the Turkana word anam, meaning " lake ".

In her autobiography Mary Leakey wrote that because of Louis's involvement with the Calico Hills site that she had lost academic respect for him and that the Calico excavations was " catastrophic to his professional career and was largely responsible for the parting of our ways ".

Meave G. Leakey ( born Meave Epps on 28 July 1942 in London, England ) is, together with her husband Richard Leakey, one of the most renowned contemporary paleontologists.

Turkana Boy — discovered by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of the Leakeys ' team in 1984 — was the nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster ( though some, including Leakey, call it erectus ) who died 1. 6 million years ago at about age 9-12.

Shortly after the discovery of Turkana Boy, Leakey and his team made the discovery of a skull ( KNM WT 17000, known as ” Black Skull ”) of a new species, Australopithecus aethiopicus ( or Paranthropus aethiopicus ).

Homo rudolfensis was a species of the genus Homo that is known only through a handful of representative fossils, the first of which was discovered by Bernard Ngeneo, a member of a team led by anthropologist Richard Leakey and zoologist Meave Leakey in 1972, at Koobi Fora on the east side of Lake Rudolf ( now Lake Turkana ) in Kenya.

On 8 August 2012, a team led by Meave Leakey announced the discovery of a face and two jawbones belonging to H. rudolfensis.

In August 2012, a team led by Meave Leakey published an academic paper in Nature announcing that three additional H. rudolfensis fossils from Northern Kenya had been found: two jawbones with teeth and a face.

The skeleton was discovered in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of a team led by Richard Leakey, at Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Although the excavation team did not find hips, feet or legs, Meave Leakey believes that Australopithecus anamensis often climbed trees.

Walker was a member of the team led by Richard Leakey responsible for the 1984 discovery the skeleton of the so-called Turkana Boy, and 1985 Walker himself discovered the Black Skull near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Mary and her husband Louis Leakey classified the find as Zinjanthropus boisei: " Zinj " for the medieval East African region of Zanj, " anthropus " ( Gr. ανθρωπος ) meaning ' man ' ( human ); and " boisei " for Charles Boise ( the anthropologists team ’ s funder at the time ).

* Turkana Boy is found in Kenya by team led by Richard Leakey.

The bones were recovered by a scientific team from the Kenya National Museums directed by Richard Leakey and others.

More importantly in 1931 Louis Leakey discovered older more primitive stone tools in Olduvai Gorge — these were the first examples of the oldest human technology ever discovered in Africa, subsequently known throughout the world as Oldowan after Olduvai Gorge.

At nearby Laetoli the oldest known hominid footprints, the Laetoli footprints, were discovered by Mary Leakey in 1978, and estimated to be about 3. 6 million years old and probably made by Australopithecus afarensis.

A line of hominid fossil footprints, discovered in 1976 by Mary Leakey, is preserved in powdery volcanic ash from an eruption of the 20 km distant Sadiman Volcano.

* Richard L. Hay and Mary D. Leakey, " Fossil footprints of Laetoli.

* Leakey, M. D. and Hay, R. L .-Pliocene footprints in the Laetolil Beds at Laetoli, northern Tanzania-Nature

Tuttle was enlisted by Mary Leakey to analyze the 3. 4 million-year-old footprints she discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania.

* July-Fossil hominid footprints found at Laetoli, Tanzania, by Mary Leakey.

Anglo-American settlement of the area began in 1856 when John Leakey, his wife Nancy, and a few others settled near a spring along the banks of the Frio River.

When she arrived in Borneo, Galdikas settled into a primitive bark and thatch hut, at a site she dubbed Camp Leakey, near the edge of the Java Sea.

Louis Leakey provided something of an answer by proving that man evolved in Africa.

One of the first known hominids, it was nicknamed ' handy man ' by discoverer Louis Leakey due to its association with stone tools.

Leakey, believing that the study of existing great apes could provide indications of the behaviour of early hominids, was looking for a chimpanzee researcher though he kept the idea to himself.

Mary Leakey returned to the site, and almost immediately discovered the well-preserved remains of hominids.

In 1978, the discovery of hominid tracks —“ The Laetoli Footprints ”— by Mary Leakey gained significant recognition by both scientists and laymen, providing convincing evidence of bipedalism in Pliocene hominids.

Excavations at the site conducted by Richard Leakey and others have yielded a complete skeleton of a 1. 5-million-year-old elephant ( 1967 ), a new species of monkey ( 1969 ) and fossil remains of hominids from 1 to 2 million years ago.