Editing Louis Leakey (section)

=== Defence of Reck ===
In November 1931, Louis led an expedition to Olduvai whose members included Reck,<ref>Arthur Tindell Hopwood, Donald MacInnes, [[Vivian Fuchs]], Captain Hewlitt, Frances Kenrick, Frida, Reck, and a number of African assistants.</ref> whom Louis allowed to enter the gorge first. Leakey had bet Reck that Leakey would find Acheulean tools within the first 24 hours, which he did.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morton |first1=Glenn R. |title=Adam, Apes and Anthropology |date=1997 |publisher=Lulu.com (self-published) |location=Spring, Texas |isbn=0-9648227-2-5 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=80hHDwAAQBAJ}}{{self-published source|date=May 2020}}</ref> These verified the provenance of the 1913 find, now called Olduvai Man. Non-humanoid fossils and tools were extracted from the ground in large numbers. Frida delayed joining her husband and was less enthusiastic about him on behalf of Priscilla. She did arrive eventually, however, and Louis put her to work. Frida's site became FLK, for Frida Leakey's Karongo ("gully").<ref name=frida>{{Cite ODNB|title=Leakey, Henrietta Wilfrida (1902–1993)|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-52219|access-date=2020-09-23|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/52219}}</ref>

Back in Cambridge, the sceptics were not impressed. To find supporting evidence of the antiquity of Reck's Olduvai Man, Louis returned to Africa, excavating at [[Kanam (Kenya)|Kanam]] and [[Kanjera]]. He easily found more fossils, which he named [[Homo kanamensis]]. While he was gone, the opposition worked up some "evidence" of the intrusion of Olduvai Man into an earlier layer, evidence that seemed convincing at the time, but is missing and unverifiable now. On his return, Louis' finds were carefully examined by a committee of 26 scientists and were tentatively accepted as valid.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}<ref>Read about these events in ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25470615?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Recent Research into Oldowan Hominin Activities at Kanjera South, Western Kenya]'', by L. C. Bishop et al., published in the ''African Archaeological Review''.</ref>