MEET THE AUTHOR: Penny Haw
An episode of the WOMAN ZONE STORIES podcast, hosted by WOMAN ZONE, titled "MEET THE AUTHOR: Penny Haw " was published on February 9, 2025 and runs 33 minutes.
February 9, 2025 ·33m · WOMAN ZONE STORIES
Summary
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, much awarded and sometimes known as the Grande Dame of Archaeology, was remarkable. Not just for her fossilsed discoveries back in the 1950’s-70’s of skulls and tools dating back 200 million years, but for the extraordinary life she led – moving from Londonto East Africa.She was also the wife of paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, and co-founder ofThe Leakey Foundation, but inFollow Me To Africa – its Mary’s own story that Penny Haw de Vos tells.
Episode Description
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, much awarded and sometimes known as the Grande Dame of Archaeology, was remarkable. Not just for her fossilsed discoveries back in the 1950’s-70’s of skulls and tools dating back 200 million years, but for the extraordinary life she led – moving from Londonto East Africa.
She was also the wife of paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, and co-founder ofThe Leakey Foundation, but inFollow Me To Africa – its Mary’s own story that Penny Haw de Vos tells.
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