Renowned cigar-smoking archaeologist Mary Leakey describes early-man excavations to visitors in the Olduvai Gorge in 1972 in Tanzania, East Africa.

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British archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey with one of her ubiquitous cigars describes early-man excavations to visitors in the Olduvai Gorge in 1972 in Tanzania, East Africa. The famed fossil hunter died in 1996 at the age of 83. Many of her renowned excavations were carried out with her husband, the equally famous British paleontologist Louis Leakey.

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Size: 5097px × 3410px
Location: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
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