Posted on 11/05/2021 9:49:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
The remains were found in a remote part of the cave that suggests the body had been placed there on purpose, said Professor Guy Berger.
JOHANNESBURG — The fossil remains of an early hominid child who died almost 250,000 years ago have been discovered in a cave in South Africa by a team of international and South African researchers.
The team announced the discovery of a partial skull and teeth of a Homo naledi child who died when it was approximately four to six years old.
The remains were found in a remote part of the cave that suggests the body had been placed there on purpose, in what could be a kind of grave, Professor Guy Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, who led the team said in an announcement Thursday.
The placement “adds mystery as to how these many remains came to be in these remote, dark spaces of the Rising Star Cave system,” he added.
Homo naledi is a species of archaic human found in the Rising Star Cave, Cradle of Humankind, 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg. Homo naledi dates to the Middle Pleistocene era 335,000–236,000 years ago.
The initial discovery, first publicly announced in 2015, comprises 1,550 specimens, representing 737 different elements, and at least 15 different individuals.
“Homo naledi remains one of the most enigmatic ancient human relatives ever discovered,” said Berger. “It is clearly a primitive species, existing at a time when previously we thought only modern humans were in Africa."
He added that "its very presence at that time and in this place complexifies our understanding of who did what first concerning the invention of complex stone tool cultures and even ritual practices.”
The new discovery is described in two papers in the journal, PaleoAnthropology.
Lol! That’s funny. I don’t care who you are!
Another tragic COVID death, but predictable due to being unvaxxed..
Apartheid back then?
Piltdown Man Redux? :-)
Hi.
How do you take and verify, with DNA and or carbon testing a “250,000” year old corpse?
5.56mm
I had been taught the better form was " complexicates." Others say it's "complexorates" but that is just ignorant.
It’s complicated....................
“Scientist were shocked when they discovered that the dead hominid has been a registered the and actively voting Democrat for 250,000 years.”
“complexifies”
“complexicates”
“complexorates”
Yes, one of the great debates in my high school English class back in the 60s. I’m impressed you remembered all the conjugations.
(I love it!)
Every attempt to try to age man earlier than 6000 or so years has turned out to be a hoax. I mean a really tire hoax. I think it’s because the Bible dates the age of man to around 6000 years.
There is simply no reliable record of man’s existence including written historical records earlier than 5000 or 6000 years old. Such hoaxes are meant to support the unsupportable Darwin theory of evolution of man which even Darwin himself had problems with.
Another mass of confusion is mixing up the age of man versus the age of the earth. Although it appears the age of man is around 6K years, the age of the earth is millions or billions of years old. No hoax there.
There is simply no reliable record of man’s existence including written historical records earlier than 5000 or 6000 years old.
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See Göbekli Tepe. Some 11,000 years old.
Obama’s son.
Quick Dems, get him registered to vote in 2022... Heck let him run for Congress... He could be smarter than Maxine... 🤓
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