# Mary Leakey (@mary-leakey)

Mary Leakey was a archaeologist and paleoanthropologist. Mary Leakey directed meticulous excavations and classification of stone tools in East Africa and discovered the Paranthropus boisei skull known as Zinj.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Mary Leakey's public record._

## Topics

- [Credit and Collaboration](/@mary-leakey/credit-and-collaboration.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Laetoli Footprints](/@mary-leakey/laetoli-footprints.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Olduvai Fieldwork](/@mary-leakey/olduvai-fieldwork.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://leakeyfoundation.org/about-us/the-leakey-family/
- blog: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/laetoli-footprint-trails
- blog: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/mary-leakey.html

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "mary-leakey", "question": "…"}`.