Editing Louis Leakey (section)

===Research Fellow===
[[File:StJohnsCambNewCourt.jpg|thumb|left|St. John's College, Cambridge.]]
In 1927, Louis received a visit at a site called Gamble's Cave, near [[Lake Elmenteita]], by two women on a holiday, one of whom was Frida Avern (1902–1993). Avern had done some coursework in archaeology. Louis and Frida began a relationship, which continued upon his return to Cambridge. In 1928, they married and continued work near Lake Elmenteita. Finds from Gamble's Cave were donated by Leakey to the [[British Museum]] in 1931.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?place=52437&plaA=52437-3-1|title=Collection search: You searched for|access-date=14 March 2017}}</ref> At that time he discovered the [[Acheulean]] site of [[Kariandusi Prehistoric Site|Kariandusi]], which he excavated in 1928.

On the strength of his work there, he obtained a post-graduate research fellowship at [[St John's College, Cambridge|St. John's College]] and returned to Cambridge in 1929 to classify and prepare the finds from Elmenteita. His patron and mentor at Cambridge were now [[Arthur Keith]]. While cleaning two skeletons he had found, he noticed a similarity to one found in [[Olduvai Gorge]] by Professor [[Hans Reck]], a German national, whom Louis had met in 1925 in Germany while on business for Keith.
[[File:Olduvai-Schlucht Mike Krüger 110126 1.jpg|thumb|right|Olduvai Gorge 2011.]]
The geology of Olduvai was known. In 1913, Reck had extricated a skeleton from Bed II in the gorge wall. He argued that it must have the date of the bed, which was believed to be 600,000 years, in the mid-[[Pleistocene]]. Early dates for human evolution were not widely accepted by the general public at the time. Reck became involved in a media uproar. He was barred from going back to settle the question by the war and then the terms of the transfer of Tanganyika from Germany to Britain.<ref>For an account of the incident refer to ''[http://www.calarts.edu/~shockley/oh1.html Hans Reck and the Discovery of O.H.1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203012539/http://www.calarts.edu/~shockley/oh1.html |date=3 February 2007 }}'' at the "Always Something New" site.</ref> In 1929, Louis visited Berlin to talk to the now skeptical Reck. Noting an [[Acheulean]] tool in Reck's collection of artifacts from Olduvai, he bet Reck he could find ancient stone tools at Olduvai within 24 hours.<ref>The source for this subsection is Morell, Chapter 3, "Laying Claim to the Earliest Man".</ref>

Louis received his PhD in 1930 at the age of 27. His first child, a daughter named Priscilla Muthoni Leakey, was born in 1931. His headaches and epilepsy returned, and he was prescribed [[Phenobarbital|Luminal]], which he took for the rest of his life.