Google's doodle marks Mary Leakey's birth anniversary
Google's homepage today depicts a doodle to mark Mary Leakey's 100th birthday anniversary. Born in 1913 in London, she was a noted British archaeologist. She is known world over for her significant discoveries of the fossils of the ancient hominines. Leakey wrote four books on her pre-historical works and died on December 9, 1996 at the age of 83.
The doodle has an image of a female archaeologist, an excavation site marked with footprints and tools like brush, leaf-and-square and trowel. The depiction also shows two dogs playing around the site.
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As a keen researcher in her field, she developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. The books authored by her are Excavations at Njoro River Cave, Excavations in Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge: My Search for Early Man, and Africa's Vanishing Art: The Rock Paintings of Tanzania.
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