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Mary Leaky, a British archaeologist is renowned for her contribution to the study of hominines. Mary was the first archaeologist to discover Laetoli footprints and also the first fossilised skull of an extinct ape Proconsul considered ancestral to humans.
Leaky was born on 6th February 1913 and died at the age of 83 in 1996.
Mary leaky was interested in archaeology since a young age her interest developed at the age of 12 when she visited an ancient site with her family. The site the family visited was Les Eyzies where Elie Peyrony another excavator was carrying out the digging in one cave. A curious child, Mary gained the permission to go through Elie’s “dump” (objects she found but deemed unimportant) and save many points, scrapers, and blades starting her own collection. That was perhaps her first brush with her system of classification.
Mary Leaky has also written various books on the subject of archaeology.
The doodle shows Mary Leaky seated on the ground with a spear in her hand and foot-prints on the ground. We also see per-historic creatures scampering in the background. The Google logo is hidden in the archaeological ruins behind Mary.