Sometime during the many millions of yea... by Louis Leakey

Years America africa Archaeologist Paleoanthropologist

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

- Louis Leakey

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I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

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