Louis Leakey (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Louis Leakey" in English language version.

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"Eliza Hubbard Woolmer, wife of James Leakey". Artsandculture.google.com. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2022. Elizabeth Hubbard Woolmer was born on 20 December 1793. ... On 28 August 1815 she married the artist James Leakey (1775-1865) at St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter (2). They had eleven children. ... Caroline Woolmer Leakey (1827-1881)

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Morton, Glenn R. (1997). Adam, Apes and Anthropology. Spring, Texas: Lulu.com (self-published). p. 11. ISBN 0-9648227-2-5.^{[self-published source]}
Dale, Peterson; Goodall, Jane (2008). The Woman Who Redefined Man. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-395-85405-1.

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"Collection search: You searched for". Retrieved 14 March 2017.

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For an account of the incident refer to Hans Reck and the Discovery of O.H.1 Archived 3 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine at the "Always Something New" site.

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"Serjeant Nigel Gray Leakey | War Casualty Details". cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022. NIGEL GRAY LEAKEY ... Died 19 May 1941 Age 28 years old ... Son of Arundell Gray A. and Elizabeth Leakey, of Kiganjo, Kenya.

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O'Donoghue, F. M.; Remington, V. (revised) (2004). "Leakey, James (1775–1865), miniature painter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16244. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Robertshaw, Peter (1988). "The elmenteitan: An early food-producing culture in East Africa". World Archaeology. 20 (1): 57–69. doi:10.1080/00438243.1988.9980056.
"Leakey, Henrietta Wilfrida (1902–1993)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52219. Retrieved 23 September 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Boswell, P. G. H. (9 March 1935). "Human Remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya Colony". Nature. 135 (3410): 371. Bibcode:1935Natur.135..371B. doi:10.1038/135371a0. S2CID 4079483.

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Boswell, P. G. H. (9 March 1935). "Human Remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya Colony". Nature. 135 (3410): 371. Bibcode:1935Natur.135..371B. doi:10.1038/135371a0. S2CID 4079483.

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Lean, Mary (26 January 2007). "Agnes Hofmeyr, Worker for reconciliation in Africa". The Independent. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2022. Agnes Leakey, worker for reconciliation: born Limuru, Kenya 8 May 1917; married 1946 Bremer Hofmeyr (died 1993; one son, and one son deceased); died Johannesburg 1 December 2006. ... Agnes Leakey was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1917, the youngest child of Gray Leakey, cousin of the anthropologist Louis Leakey, and his first wife, Elizabeth. ... in 1926, when Elizabeth died ... She married a South African colleague, Bremer Hofmeyr, in 1946. ... in ... 1954 ... Mau Mau fighters ... attacked her father's farm, killed her stepmother and abducted her father. ... [he was] buried alive, in a shallow grave on Mount Kenya. ... she lost her eldest brother, Nigel Leakey, in 1941 at Colito, where he won the Victoria Cross. Three years after Bremer's death, in 1993, their elder son, Murray, was killed in a car accident in Johannesburg.

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Else, James G. (1 January 1983). "A national primate centre for Kenya". Kenya Past and Present. 15 (1): 35–39. Retrieved 6 January 2024.

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Read about these events in Recent Research into Oldowan Hominin Activities at Kanjera South, Western Kenya, by L. C. Bishop et al., published in the African Archaeological Review.
"Prehistory and Physical Anthropology", American Anthropologist.

leakeyfoundation.org

"The Leakey Family". The Leakey Foundation. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
According to Blake Edgar in Louis Leakey's Legacy: Celebrating the Centennial of His Extraordinary Life and Finds Archived 7 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine in AnthroQuest Online for Fall, 2003, Louis received the Kikuyu name Wakuruigi, "Son of the Sparrow Hawk." Harry also had a name, apparently not an initiation name, but rather descriptive: Giteru, "Big beard".
"The Leakey Foundation". The Leakey Foundation. Retrieved 6 September 2022.

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Galdikas, Birute Mary (6 January 2007). "The Vanishing Man of the Forest". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 December 2013.

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O'Donoghue, F. M.; Remington, V. (revised) (2004). "Leakey, James (1775–1865), miniature painter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16244. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Leakey, Henrietta Wilfrida (1902–1993)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52219. Retrieved 23 September 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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"Congresses and Presidents – PanAfrican Archaeological Association". www.panafprehistory.org. Retrieved 22 October 2021.

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"The Leakey family - PBS". PBS.

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"Mau Mau and the Kikuyu – 1952, Page iii by L. S. B. Leakey". Archived from the original on 22 August 2009.
"Defeating Mau Mau – 1954, Page iii by L. S. B. Leakey". Archived from the original on 18 August 2009.

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Boswell, P. G. H. (9 March 1935). "Human Remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya Colony". Nature. 135 (3410): 371. Bibcode:1935Natur.135..371B. doi:10.1038/135371a0. S2CID 4079483.

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"OH 9". Smithsonian Institution, Human Origins Initiative. 7 February 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2016.

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"Eliza Hubbard Woolmer, wife of James Leakey". Artsandculture.google.com. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2022. Elizabeth Hubbard Woolmer was born on 20 December 1793. ... On 28 August 1815 she married the artist James Leakey (1775-1865) at St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter (2). They had eleven children. ... Caroline Woolmer Leakey (1827-1881)
"Serjeant Nigel Gray Leakey | War Casualty Details". cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022. NIGEL GRAY LEAKEY ... Died 19 May 1941 Age 28 years old ... Son of Arundell Gray A. and Elizabeth Leakey, of Kiganjo, Kenya.
Lean, Mary (26 January 2007). "Agnes Hofmeyr, Worker for reconciliation in Africa". The Independent. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2022. Agnes Leakey, worker for reconciliation: born Limuru, Kenya 8 May 1917; married 1946 Bremer Hofmeyr (died 1993; one son, and one son deceased); died Johannesburg 1 December 2006. ... Agnes Leakey was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1917, the youngest child of Gray Leakey, cousin of the anthropologist Louis Leakey, and his first wife, Elizabeth. ... in 1926, when Elizabeth died ... She married a South African colleague, Bremer Hofmeyr, in 1946. ... in ... 1954 ... Mau Mau fighters ... attacked her father's farm, killed her stepmother and abducted her father. ... [he was] buried alive, in a shallow grave on Mount Kenya. ... she lost her eldest brother, Nigel Leakey, in 1941 at Colito, where he won the Victoria Cross. Three years after Bremer's death, in 1993, their elder son, Murray, was killed in a car accident in Johannesburg.
According to Blake Edgar in Louis Leakey's Legacy: Celebrating the Centennial of His Extraordinary Life and Finds Archived 7 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine in AnthroQuest Online for Fall, 2003, Louis received the Kikuyu name Wakuruigi, "Son of the Sparrow Hawk." Harry also had a name, apparently not an initiation name, but rather descriptive: Giteru, "Big beard".
For an account of the incident refer to Hans Reck and the Discovery of O.H.1 Archived 3 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine at the "Always Something New" site.
"Mau Mau and the Kikuyu – 1952, Page iii by L. S. B. Leakey". Archived from the original on 22 August 2009.
"Defeating Mau Mau – 1954, Page iii by L. S. B. Leakey". Archived from the original on 18 August 2009.