Talk:Mary Leakey
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[edit] Jaywick Sands
"In 1934 she excavated on her own at Jaywick Sands. She also published her first scientific paper."
I temporarily removed this as there seems to be a little hole here in the record. Jaywick Sands was first excavated 1934, no doubt. In 1937 Mary Leakey and Kenneth P. Oakley published a paper on Jaywick Sands, no doubt. There the certainty seems to end. Mary Leakey as Mary Leakey could not have been at Jaywick, as she did not become Mrs. Leakey until 1936. Let us say that Mary Nicol was there (which is by no means assured). She couldn't have been there alone. What about Oakley? She also couldn't have published her first scientific paper, as she was an archaeological non-entity, a student of Liddell. But, we hear from Morell that in 1934 she was still at Hembury, in her last year, and was also doing some drawings for Liddell! Louis used to pick her up at the excavation on weekends and the two would run around on poor Frida. Just when was she at Jaywick and when with Oakley? Oakley was a bigger fish than she was then and a senior associate of young Louis. Most likely Louis put her onto Oakley as an illustrator, but I do not know and no one else seems to know either, as they all want to refer to the scientific article of 1937 as an early work of the great Mary Leakey. I presume that is the scientific paper referenced by the removed statement. She and Louis were in total disgrace. I think she was 21 or 22. Oakley had some pity on them. Anyway, if anyone has ascertained the truth of this matter, please do restore the statement or clean it up or even expand on it!Dave 20:45, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
