No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

The Leakeys unearthed a Proconsul africanus skull on Rusinga Island in October 1948. By then Richard had decided to become a palaeoanthropologist. Olduvai Gorge: My Search for Early Man 1979
Africa's Vanishing Art: The Rock Paintings of Tanzania 1983


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She also discovered fifteen new species of other animals and one new genus. 75 million-years-old. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge.