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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

Louis Leakey

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Louis Leakey
Age: 69 †
Born: 1903
Born: August 7
Died: 1972
Died: October 1
Anthropologist
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Autobiographer
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Paleontologist
Prehistorian
Kenya's capital
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
L.S.B. Leakey
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