Mary Leakey

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.