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A new species of hominid, Homo naledi, was announced by the University of the Witwatersrand the National Geographic Society, the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation of South Africa, on 10 September 2015.
The discovery consists of more than 1 550 fossil elements making it the single largest fossil hominin find ever on the African continent.
The finds shed light on the origins and diversity of our species and apparently indicate deliberate deposition of bodies in a remote cave chamber, behavior that is thought to be limited to humans.
The fossils were found in deep underground in a chamber named Dinaledi, or Chamber of Stars, by researchers led by Professor Lee Berger of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits. The discovery of the Chamber of Stars, in the Cradle of Humankind about 50 km northwest of Johannesburg, was announced by the Rising Star Expedition, in 2013.
H. naledi was named after the Rising Star Cave - "naledi' means star in Sesotho.
So far, the team has recovered parts of at least 15 individuals.
A wealth of bones remain still to be excavated. Excavation is difficult because the chamber is about 90 m from the cave entrance and can be accessed only by very slender individuals. the significance of this finding was startling as it led to different possibilities to where we could have came from and it gave way for different possibilities of how we humans were long ago. it was only up until recently where we had found this out which changed our perspective of our evolution and opened the doors for lots of other possibilities as to how we developed, this discovery in fact could have changed human history as we know it. professor lee Berger the man leading the excavation team was extremely happy about his ground breaking discoveries I mean this was a huge milestone and major discovery which could have changed our history completely.
A wealth of bones remain still to be excavated. Excavation is difficult because the chamber is about 90 m from the cave entrance and can be accessed only by very slender individuals. the significance of this finding was startling as it led to different possibilities to where we could have came from and it gave way for different possibilities of how we humans were long ago. it was only up until recently where we had found this out which changed our perspective of our evolution and opened the doors for lots of other possibilities as to how we developed, this discovery in fact could have changed human history as we know it. professor lee Berger the man leading the excavation team was extremely happy about his ground breaking discoveries I mean this was a huge milestone and major discovery which could have changed our history completely.
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