Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
| Noun | 1. | Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey - English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972) |
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| 释义 | Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett LeakeyLeakey, Louis Seymour BazettBorn Aug. 7, 1903, in Kabete, Kenya; died Oct. 1, 1972, in London. British archaeologist and anthropologist. In 1927–29, Leakey excavated Gamble’s Cave and established the relative chronology of a number of East African archaeological cultures. In 1930 he excavated the Neolithic Njoro Cave. Beginning in 1951 he studied rock drawings in Tanzania. Of great significance are his discoveries in 1959–60 in Olduvai Gorge of the bone remains of the fossil primates Zinjanthropus and pre-Zinjanthropus, as well as the skull of a man resembling the Java Pithecanthropus. WORKSThe Stone Age Cultures of Kenya Colony. Cambridge, 1931.The Stone Age Races of Kenya. London, 1935. Stone Age Africa. London, 1936. Olduvai Gorge 1951–1961, vols. 1–2. Cambridge, 1965–67. (Vol. 2 in collaboration with P. W. Tobians.) Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
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