[Jack Straw from Wichita]

Really, because there was a great documentary on PBS about three weeks ago and it focused on the team of young, thin, female PhDs from around the world who were brought together to conduct the extraction of the remains from the cave. No joke. It was rather fascinating to see them descend into the cave and squeeze through the opening. They reckoned that they were the first people down there in quite literally millions of years.

[AndyJackson]

Berger wrote a great book on the subject:

He needed female [because of size] anthoropologists who were spelunkers [because of the intense cave diving conditions].

Utterly fascinating.