Louis Leakey
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Kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Having established a programme of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work. Several members of the Leakey family became prominent scholars themselves.
Louis Leakey's Published Works
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Published Works
- A New Species of The Genus Homo From Olduvai Gorge (1964) (632)
- The Potassium-Argon Dating of Late Cenozoic Rocks in East Africa and Italy [and Comments and Reply] (1965) (279)
- A New Fossil Skull From Olduvai (1959) (249)
- The Stone Age Cultures of Kenya Colony (1932) (198)
- The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa (1951) (176)
- A new Lower Pliocene fossil primate from Kenya (1961) (140)
- The Southern Kikuyu before 1903 (1981) (116)
- Recent Discoveries of Fossil Hominids in Tanganyika : At Olduvai and Near Lake Natron (1964) (109)
- Recent Discoveries at Olduvai Gorge (1960) (100)
- New Hominid Skull from Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (1971) (87)
- REPORT ON THE EXCAVATIONS AT HYRAX HILL, NAKURU, KENYA COLONY, 1937–1938 (1943) (87)
- Age of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika (1961) (82)
- Stone age Africa (1931) (78)
- The stone age races of Kenya (1936) (77)
- Recent Discoveries at Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika (1958) (72)
- An Early Miocene Member of Hominidae (1967) (72)
- New Finds at Olduvai Gorge (1961) (71)
- Stone age Africa: An Outline of Prehistory in Africa. (Monro Lectures, 1936) (1937) (71)
- Olduvai Gorge: A Preliminary Report on the Geology and Fauna (1965) (66)
- Adam's Ancestors. (1934) (64)
- Fission-Track Dating of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge (1965) (56)
- Diagnoses of East African Miocene Hominoidea (1949) (47)
- Homo habilis, Homo erectus and the Australopithecines (1966) (43)
- Dimple-Based Pottery from Central Kavirondo, Kenya Colony (1948) (38)
- Defeating Mau Mau (1952) (37)
- Olduvai Gorge: A Report on the Evolution of the Hand-Axe Cultures in Beds I-IV (1951) (37)
- Africa and Pleistocene Overkill? (1966) (34)
- East African Lakes (1931) (33)
- Fission Track Dating of a Mesolithic Knife (1965) (33)
- Some Notes on the Masai of Kenya Colony. (28)
- Olduvai Gorge: A Report on the Evolution of the Hand-Axe Culture in Beds I-IV (1953) (26)
- Bone Smashing by Late Miocene Hominidae (1968) (26)
- The Juvenile Mandible from Olduvai (1961) (26)
- Some East African Pleistocene Suidae (1959) (25)
- New fossil suidae from Shungura, OMO (1943) (23)
- Finding the world's earliest man (1960) (23)
- A New Fossil Skull from Eyassi, East Africa: DISCOVERY BY A GERMAN EXPEDITION (1936) (22)
- Archaeological excavations in the calico mountains, california: preliminary report. (1968) (21)
- Lower Dentition of Kenyapithecus africanus (1968) (21)
- By the evidence: memoirs, 1932-1951 (1974) (20)
- Kenya; contrasts and problems (1936) (20)
- Proceedings of the Pan-African Congress on Prehistory (1947) (20)
- Fossil Human Remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya Colony (1936) (20)
- A Miocene Anthropoid Mandible from Rusinga, Kenya (1943) (20)
- The Kikuyu Problem of the Initiation of Girls (1931) (18)
- Adventures in the search for man (1963) (17)
- Adam's ancestors : the evolution of man and his culture (1960) (17)
- Lower Miocene Invertebrates from Kenya (1952) (16)
- A New Classification of the Bow and Arrow in Africa. (15)
- Preliminary Report on Examination of the Engaruka Ruins (1936) (15)
- Upper Miocene Primates from Kenya (1968) (15)
- Tentative Study of the Pleistocene Climatic Changes and Stone-Age Culture Sequence in North-Eastern Angola (1950) (14)
- The relationship of African apes, man and old world monkeys. (1970) (14)
- Excavations at the Njoro River cave : Stone Age cremated burials in Kenya Colony (1950) (14)
- The progress and evolution of man in Africa (1961) (14)
- Adam's Ancestors: an Up-to-date Outline of what is known about the Origin of Man (1934) (12)
- Recent Discoveries of Fossil Hominids in Tanganyika: At Olduvai and Near Lake Natron (1965) (12)
- First lessons in Kikuyu (1978) (12)
- Age of the Oldoway Bone Beds, Tanganyika Territory. (1931) (12)
- Presumed Super-foetation in an Erythrocebus patas Monkey (1969) (12)
- Unveiling Man's Origins : Ten Decades of Thought About Human Evolution (1969) (11)
- Fossil Vertebrates of Africa. (1970) (11)
- The economics of Kikuyu tribal life (1956) (10)
- Notes on the genus Simopithecus, with a description of a new species from Olduvai (1958) (10)
- Age of Bed V, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (1968) (10)
- Development of aggression as a factor in early human and pre-human evolution. (1967) (10)
- The Affinities of the New Olduvai Australopithecine (1960) (10)
- New Yields from the Oldoway Bone Beds, Tanganyika Territory. (1931) (10)
- A New Species of Genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge (1965) (9)
- The Oldoway Human Skeleton (1932) (9)
- Ecology of North Indian Ramapithecus (1969) (9)
- Age of Basalt underlying Bed I, Olduvai (1962) (8)
- Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961. Volume 1. Fauna and Background (1965) (8)
- Ideas on Human Evolution (1967) (8)
- Stone implements: how they were made and used (1950) (7)
- The Oldoway Skull (1928) (7)
- Changes in the Physical Geography of East Africa in Human Times (1934) (7)
- Human Remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya Colony (1935) (6)
- Exploring 1,750,000 years into man's past: a noted british archeologist tells of dramatic discoveries at Olduvai Gorge (1961) (6)
- The Newest Link in Human Evolution: The Discovery by L.S.B. Leakey of Zinjanthropus Boisei (1960) (6)
- Animals of East Africa (1945) (6)
- Basic Rectangle of the Mandible in the Hominoidae (1971) (5)
- Working stone, bone and wood (1954) (5)
- East African Archæology (1929) (5)
- Fort Ternan Hominid (1969) (5)
- Overkill at Olduvai Gorge (1967) (5)
- Fossil Finds in Kenya. Ape or Primitive Man? (1946) (4)
- The Archaeological Aspect of the Tanganyika Paintings (1950) (4)
- An Alternative Interpretation of the Supposed Giant Deciduous Hominid Tooth from Olduvai (1960) (4)
- Olduvai Gorge 1951–61: Non-mammalian fauna (1965) (4)
- Africa's Contribution to the Evolution of Man (1961) (3)
- Adam's ancestors : an up-to-date outline of the Old Stone Age (palaeolithic) and what is known about man's origin and evolution (1953) (3)
- Adam, or ape : a sourcebook of discoveries about early man (1971) (3)
- Olduvai Gorge 1951–61: Map (1965) (3)
- Proceedings of the First Pan-African Congress on Prehistory (1953) (3)
- Was Homo erectus responsible for the hand-axe culture? (1973) (3)
- Leakey's Report: The Geology and Fauna of Olduvai Gorge. (Book Reviews: Olduvai Gorge, 1951-1961. vol. 1, A Preliminary Report on the Geology and Fauna) (1965) (3)
- Pleistocene man at Calico : a report on the Calico Mountains excavations, San Bernardino County, California : SanBernardino Country Museum San Bernardino Valley College October 22-25, 1970 (1972) (3)
- “Newly” Recognized Mandible of Ramapithecus (1970) (2)
- Aggression and violence in Man -- a Dialogue (1971) (2)
- Human residues of Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya Colony (1933) (2)
- Fossil Skull from Olduwai (1959) (2)
- Prehistoric Man in Kenya. (1931) (2)
- Hominidae and Controversy: Review@@@Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961. Volume I: A Preliminary Report on the Geology and Fauna (1965) (2)
- Terminology in Prehistory (1950) (2)
- Some string figures from North East Angola (1949) (2)
- Animals of East Africa : the wild realm (1969) (2)
- Excavations at Njoro, Kenya (1938) (2)
- Man in America: the Calico Mountains Excavations (1970) (2)
- British – Kenya Miocene Expeditions: Interim Report (1955) (2)
- East African Lakes: Discussion (1931) (1)
- The Fossil Apes of Lake Victoria (1950) (1)
- Fission Track Dating of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge (1965) (1)
- The Evolution of Man in the African Continent (1966) (1)
- Report on a Visit to the Site of the Eyasi Skull, Part I (1949) (1)
- Fossil hominid taxonomy. (1969) (1)
- MAN'S AFRICAN ORIGIN (1962) (1)
- Calico and Early Man (1979) (1)
- SOME PROBLEMS ARISING FROM THE PART PLAYED BY GOATS AND SHEEP IN THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE KIKUYU (1934) (1)
- Review of the faunal evidence (1965) (0)
- [The evolution of man]. (1926) (0)
- Early Man in East Africa@@@The Stone Age Cultures of Kenya Colony@@@Quaternary Glaciations and Pluvial Lakes in British East Africa (1932) (0)
- Olduvai Gorge 1951–61: Dating by the potassium–argon technique (1965) (0)
- The Oldoway Human Skeleton (1933) (0)
- Response : Fossil Hominid Taxonomy (1969) (0)
- Fossil Vertebrates of Africa Volume I (1971) (0)
- Unveiling Man's Origins (Routledge Revivals): Ten Decades of Thought about Human Evolution (1969) (0)
- Olduvai Gorge 1951–61: References (1965) (0)
- White African : am early autobiography (1966) (0)
- Feature - a Hearth or an Accident (1972) (0)
- Spotlight on East Africa (1953) (0)
- Olduvai Gorge 1951–61: The general geological evidence (1965) (0)
- Mammalian fauna: Bovidae (1965) (0)
- Uganda and Kenya@@@Uganda@@@Kenya: Contrasts and Problems (1936) (0)
- The problems of the climatic sequence (1965) (0)
- History of the National Museum of Kenya (1971) (0)
- Reproduction of "Some String Figures from North East Angola" (1981) (0)
- Fossil Human Occipital Bone from Thames Gravels (1935) (0)
- The Oldoway Human Skeleton (1932) (0)
- Olduvai Gorge 1951–61: Introduction (1965) (0)
- The religious element in Mau Mau (1954) (0)
- The Olduvai Discoveries (1962) (0)
- Olduvai Gorge 1951–61: Plate section (1965) (0)
- Review of earlier reports on the fauna (1965) (0)
- Artifacts - Real or Simulated? (1972) (0)
- Note on fossil human discoveries and cultural evidence (1965) (0)
- 72. Some Aspects of the Kikuyu Tribe (1934) (0)
- Some aspects of the black and white problem in Kenya (1931) (0)
- South African Stone Age Terminology (1950) (0)
- Mammalian fauna: other than Bovidae (1965) (0)
- East Africa Past and Present (1930) (0)
- Recent discoveries at Olduval Gorge, Tanganyika. (1958) (0)
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