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Mary Leakey
She met Louis Leakey while he was giving a talk at the Royal Anthropologist institute -
Mary Leakey first experiment
Mary worked on her first arrcheological excavation -
Mary traveled
She traveled to Tanzania to join Louis -
Mary married
Louis and Mary married -
Mary had her 1st son
Jonathan Harry Erskine Leakey born -
Mary Leakey daughter died
Mary daught Deborah died -
Mary 2nd son born
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey born -
Mary discovery
Mary found a Proconsul Africans skull, an apelike creature dated to the Miacene Era, eighteen million years old -
Mary 3rd son
Philip, Mary 3rd son was born -
Mary 2nd discovery
Mary found the Zinjanthropus skull 1.75 million years old fossil the oldest hominid fossil to that time -
Mary receive award
Mary and Lousi traveled to the United states to receive the Gold medal from the National Geographic Society -
Mary first degree
She earned her first honorary degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg -
Mary husband died
Louis died of a heart attack -
Mary over her past work
Mary commenced excavations at nearby Laetoli -
Mary found footprints
Her team found footprints that had been fossiled in volcanic ash -
Mary discovered hominid
Mary team discovered two short parallel trials -
Mary retired
She retired from active fieldwork -
Mary Leakey died
Mary Leakey died at age 83
