Louise M. Robbins (1928-1987) received her BA, MA, and PhD from Indiana University and was a member of the Department of Anthropology faculty at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 1974 until her death. She was a physical anthropologist, footprint expert and consultant to police departments nationwide. Robbins discusses her summer field trips in 1978 and 1979 to Laetoli, Tanzania in East Africa, where she worked with Mary Leakey during the discovery of the hominid footprint trail (earliest evidence of man walking upright). She talks about the discovery's exhibits and Neanderthal exhibits at the National Geographic Society and the Smithsonian Institution.
