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