Prof Lee R Berger
@leerberger.bsky.social
Explorer in Residence, The National Geographic Society https://explorers.nationalgeographic.org/directory/lee-r-berger#c1af6ba3-0859-41e9-a4d6-6b3491785ea8
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Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi
Remains of the extinct hominin species Homo naledi were interred by members of their own species, the first time that burial has been documented in populations other than modern humans and Neanderthal...
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September 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Have you read this more than 150 pages of science? doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Well work on making that clearer in the final product
June 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Well work on making that clearer in the final product
So there are not many changes at all as it’s a series of chert ledges and dolomitic struts. I would suggest if anything it’s “easier” today than it was. It’s very hard to create understanding of such a space without “being there” and we really do sympathize with misconceptions
May 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
So there are not many changes at all as it’s a series of chert ledges and dolomitic struts. I would suggest if anything it’s “easier” today than it was. It’s very hard to create understanding of such a space without “being there” and we really do sympathize with misconceptions
Humans go to a great deal of unnecessary effort to carry/take/move their dead to their place of rest. Is it really that odd another species might care/love a much to go to great efforts?
May 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Humans go to a great deal of unnecessary effort to carry/take/move their dead to their place of rest. Is it really that odd another species might care/love a much to go to great efforts?
One thing that bugs me is why we seem to miscommunicate that whatever entrance(s) there were it doesn’t matter. It had to be so restrictive that pretty much only naledi got in. We seem to have failed to get that to sink in but it’s important
May 31, 2025 at 4:06 AM
One thing that bugs me is why we seem to miscommunicate that whatever entrance(s) there were it doesn’t matter. It had to be so restrictive that pretty much only naledi got in. We seem to have failed to get that to sink in but it’s important
So the dragons back block doesn’t work the way you draw it. It doesn’t “block” the chute labyrinth area - that is a separate space. And it didn’t “fall” far so it’s not a “cork” so to speak, in a way our earlier writings perhaps didn’t make clear. There was never a “walk in” entrance if you will.
May 31, 2025 at 4:04 AM
So the dragons back block doesn’t work the way you draw it. It doesn’t “block” the chute labyrinth area - that is a separate space. And it didn’t “fall” far so it’s not a “cork” so to speak, in a way our earlier writings perhaps didn’t make clear. There was never a “walk in” entrance if you will.