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In part three, Lee Berger shares some of the challenges his team faced in the effort to recover the fossils, and he discusses Homo naledi's significance in understanding human origins.
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Many thought that the time for field exploration in the search for human origins was over. Then in 2013, paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-In-Residence Lee Berger made a remarkable discovery: While exploring the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, his team stumbled upon one of the greatest fossil discoveries in the past half century. They found a new species of human ancestor that could very well change the way we think about human ancestry and evolution.
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@frankword75 8 лет назад

Watched all 3 parts in one breath. So exciting. Thank you Mr. Berger for initiating and leading this project and also giving credit to your team that they all deserve. You guys will always be remembered in history for the contributions with this extraordinary discovery. Good luck for future discoveries, you guys rock !

@zaimahbegum-diamond1660 8 лет назад

I nearly passed out watching the caver... extraordinary human beings.

@ndrthrdr1 8 лет назад

Imagine doing it without flashlights.

@marvinheberger8941 8 лет назад

the way he speaks about his discoveries is so inspiring to start your own project and go out and leave your own little footstep on this planet.

@NickanM 7 лет назад

*He should thank the first two absolutely crazy kids who continued more far in the cave than anyone else ever have done.*

@jesusf.2600 5 лет назад

Agreed.

@MuhammadAliGOAT 3 года назад

were the first ones who found the remains KIDS???? what is your source?

@adamh.2791 3 года назад

Oh he definitely did that. I watched a documentary where he gave them their due. Those two guys for sure made one of the greatest discoveries in history.

@annaliese6230 5 месяцев назад

I was familiar with just about everything he spoke about from my paleoanthropology courses but still screamed at each new discovery. he's a great presenter with absolutely extraordinary material

@martiniusafricanus1558 7 лет назад

Those tight spaces man, gotta give those guys props. Talk about a claustrophobic anxiety attack.

@briancaleb6503 5 лет назад

As a kid I would have loved trying to go down in places like that but as an adult no way scaryest thing, just the thought of what could go wrong. very brave people!

@colincunningham4128 8 лет назад

Amazing. Great job to all the archeologist and researches who discovered and played part in this remarkable discovery.

@Eml0t 8 лет назад

you guys are incredible and inspiring!

@48acar19 7 лет назад

You are real heros! Thank you very much for your huge efforts made for finding the truth about the human evolution!

@christinestill5002 6 лет назад

Have enjoyed this series more than any I have ever seen (I particularly loved the FACE) you've shown (when u said they all looked relatively alike). I was so hoping you would show us what these ppl looked like. Thank you for posting these talks. You are a fine scientist & and inspirational speaker. Keep it up!

@carlitobrigante4999 4 года назад

Seriously one of the greatest speeches I've ever heard

@vutube379 6 лет назад

This is so exciting to watch! Thank you!

@morgomyster0man 8 лет назад

Incredibly fascinating talk , love it.

@joanadacostavieira 7 месяцев назад

I'm so fascinated by this discovery. Its so awe-inspiring.

@austinburnz5754 8 лет назад

Absolutely amazing

@MuhammadEgypt 8 лет назад

I'm claustrophobic. I couldn't look at the man who was squeezing his way through the cave.

@baylovesoldbooks3977 8 лет назад

thank you so much explores!!

@FusionDeveloper 8 лет назад

I get increased comfort in confined spaces, but ONLY when getting out of confined spaces is fast and effortless. Examples of what I mean, is being in a tent or under bed sheet or something similar. Squeezing through small areas of underground caves, where IF my body was to swell up foe some reason or if I broke arm(s) or leg(s) or any other medical emergency, which could result in me being stuck there and dying, is something I will never put myself through on purpose. Seeing that areas of the cave these people went through, made me feel nauseous with fear. I am surprised that people actually do that, just to get some information. I strongly suspect that the cave used to be much more open than it is now, because I can't imagine people trying to push and pull dead bodies through those tight areas. If it has closed up more than it was, then there is a chance that it will soon become completely closed off or completely collapse in areas, so it's a good thing they went when they did.

@ChowMeinWarrior 2 года назад

Thank you, Lee!

@MuhammadAliGOAT 3 года назад

I'm more amazed at Rick than I am of the discovery!

@tonycapri2608 3 года назад

That was a great talk, thank you.

@kontoname 3 года назад

What's strange is that everyone seems to be so focused on their field. It's pretty well known that the statement about us being the only species that disposed of deceased is wrong. For example ants do it as well. In fact ants, and even eleph-ants for example, to mention a completely different one, also seek out burial sites before dying at times. Maybe it is, or rather was, still to early to make these discoveries. Not that it is not interesting, but I fear that only just now we're actually starting to become professional enough to really explore them fully without unneeded damage and potential knowledge lost by the processes.

@Alkis05 Год назад

He is aware of the behavior of other animals. Ants don't do it ritualistically. It is a instinctive behavior. Elephants and other animals mourn their dead, but they don't dispose of their corpses. It is exactly because of these examples that the very specific term "disposal of deceased" was coined to describe that behavior.

@munsif55 7 лет назад

great documentary and discovery by mr. lee berger. is he still in the process of exploration to find sites like that?

@ianclarke3627 5 лет назад

Incredible

@RelaxationTime778 4 года назад

Excellent job

@KendallPhillips89 4 года назад

Had I seen this in highschool, (long time ago) I would have hands down been all about doing this

@nikaaawomi7889 4 года назад

This is amazing

@annaliese6230 5 месяцев назад

the rising star cave system and its implications on humanity makes me want to cry sometimes

@loureis4539 6 лет назад

I watched all three episodes and enjoyed them very much. One question because I may have missed it in the presentation. How old is the find? When do the boned date back to?

@ironsnowflake1076 6 лет назад

Lou Reis they are still working on dating the fossils :)

@111Watersong 4 года назад

I recently read 230 000 years

@griffinpowers1004 8 лет назад

Great job! I had always been interested in Homo Naledi, and your articles and videos helped me to better understand our orange-brained ancestors!

@thomasf.5768 5 лет назад

Wow. Amazing

@JoeM370 9 месяцев назад

This is pinnacle content. I read a parallel book that was a lightbulb experience. "Temporal Echoes: Amelia's Odyssey Through Ancestral Shadows" by Vivian Rosewood

@danielpaulson8838 Год назад

It's very old but yes, looks like it's a bit crumbling inside there. I bet the opening has changed over the thousands upon thousands of years. Erosion happens all the time, some slow and some fast, but these are not limestone caves. It easily could have been more accessible to transport bodies into. Or they would have had to drag them along.

@pearlgirlMSP-cl2vv 5 лет назад

amazing!

@justice_crash2521 4 года назад

Perfection

@PazuzuDarkVoid 5 лет назад

Congratulations! And a big hug ;)

@nocturno5373 4 года назад

I'd get so claustrophobic getting through those tight spaces

@emdiar6588 4 года назад

I absolutely love this, but my vicarious subterranean claustrophobia is making it difficult to watch. Even thinking about tiny crawl spaces give my the jitters.

@simonbannow3905 5 лет назад

Does anyone know if they made/used tools? What did they eat etcetera?(*correction this clip is 3 years old, I'll just google my questions)

@tolbaszy8067 7 лет назад

Superb discovery! A true miracle! Instead of a ritual burial site, the Rising Star cave may have been a sort of hibernaculum. Home naledi may have required extended sleep periods, for regenerative reasons, climate adaptations, or just to dream in a safe place. The significant lack of other species' fossils means the chamber was a secure place, a cul de sac that had only one entrance. Attrition in a hibernaculum would account for the specific age range represented in the bone deposits- the very young and very old in larger numbers than adults. They carried themselves into the cave. Some did not come out. This site may not have been a place of ritual burial, but it may have given rise to the idea of intentional internment. Imagine creatures crawling into a safe haven, and some not emerging. The survivors may have formed ideas that the missing members went on some sort of journey. There were no artifacts included with the bones. A ritual burial would be enhanced with favorite objects from the lives of the deceased.

@chainsawkitten3766 6 лет назад

Tolba Szy deliberate interment of bodies may have been to just get them out of the way. We all know having corpses around isn’t very pleasant. And may attract predators, another unpleasant thing, who knows their reason. could be it was just a practical way to deal with death. And then later on in our evolution, we saw death as more symbolic, and it was then that we added to the ritual of death, burying people with their possessions, etc. just a thought.

@avicii264 4 года назад

They should make a movie out of this

@victorschepers6286 4 года назад

Was this opening in the passed bigger???was it a burial place???👍🇳🇱 nice greetings from Holland.

@mizos2298 3 года назад

you should go to schools and show the kids what awesome things there are to be done... there was no paleoanthropologist at career day in my school at least..

@lt875 4 года назад

You should say they did something extraordinary not WE, because you have stayed outside the cave. Bravo to them 👏

@JCO2002 5 лет назад

I'm a caver (Jamaican Caves Organisation). Some of those squeezes are ridiculously tight. Don't think I'd fit.

@mahoganyblack2208 8 лет назад

Wow!!!!

@humanity1581 Год назад

Have we ever consider that the early human may have smaller brain but maybe they were more Intuitive. Our scientist also used their intuition in their accomplishment.

@4dthinker582 6 лет назад

It seems more likely to me that the bodies ended up there over time because they found their way in, but once in (and in the dark) couldn't find their way out. A dead end trap. The rodent may have been led there by the "smell", and also been trapped. The bird.... the same.

@Muuip 5 лет назад

I agree, they could only voluntarily fit through these tight spaces. Or the cave was widely accessible back then.

@surfk9836 5 лет назад

Think about it. You are lost in a pitch black cave. You walked in and got lost. So the answer to getting out was to crawl through very tight openings. Tight spaces you didn't encounter on your way in. They were placed there.

@T3x45.m4d3 4 года назад

How tf would something be able to take a dead body down there

@johnirby493 5 лет назад

And what happened to the 6 unknown scientists?

@TheEnlightenup 8 лет назад

Look at the computer screen @ 1:03

@Chief81 4 года назад

So how did the dead bodies fit through the tiny gap(s)?

@111Watersong 4 года назад

They are smaller than us

@chadhill5354 Год назад

how is it that those bones got there though? is he saying that these beings all went that far down in those caves and lived??? how did they see with no light?

@tangerinepanther1987 5 лет назад

those tight spaces have me really squeamish. was having a panic attack while watching it.

@rp0135 Год назад

how could the naledi get there with no light and with the dead bodies in the cramped spaces

@Vloke6 8 лет назад

Ahh, the irony that creationists deny this!

@anabhousen7159 6 лет назад

"All because these remarkable scientists" yes but There was ONE GUY who found this cave. And he wasn't a scientist.

@KendallPhillips89 4 года назад

All though your technically correct, a little insensitive to the other guy with him, chopped liver lol

@33392. 4 года назад

Its bodies of families exploring and got stuck and died

@procerpat9223 2 года назад

how did those hominids get inside that cave through those tight tunnels ?

@tampaman75 5 лет назад

bob hope was found

@lakshmanankomathmanalath 2 года назад

🙏💙🙏💙🙏💙🙏💙🙏💙🙏💙🙏💙🙏💙🙏💙❤️

@arelluinnar 8 лет назад

Wow this comment section is depressing

@anhedonia420 3 года назад

They could have been cornered and starved to death too etc, might not have been a body dumping site at all. But yeah, amazing discovery nontheless.

@Miguelc271086 4 года назад

Ants dispose their dead ones

@Thesigilhex 4 года назад

They lived down there.

@kurtjohnson4816 3 года назад

Naledi is an important find; but should not be considered a human ancestor. That line probably died with them.

@impalabeeper 7 лет назад

Geez, there are so many creationists here in the comment section.

@dandangerous6417 4 года назад

What? They found the missing link?!? Then we really are a bunch of apes that evolved from a primordial soup? Dang! Thank Earth, we evolved the intelligence to throw aside our bananas to pick up swords and assert our love for shiny metal! OOH OOH AHH AHHH AHHH, that's so cool!

@Gabriel-zx3ge 3 года назад

The missing link is australopithecus, but yeah, that's mostly right

@stevenunua2118 5 лет назад

So other than interesting...what does it matter?

@Herb-bu7wz 5 лет назад

steve nunua we learn more about our world and our past... a little less historical amnesia.

@R0GUER0CK 5 лет назад

@c449982 6 лет назад

I'm free of charge if you ever need people to help you dig.i want to be on a team: your team...

@Wckmt7ok 8 лет назад

All I gotta say is "Everything you thought was wrong" with Lloyd Pye on YT

@dandangerous6417 4 года назад

This guy might not be a scientist, but he plays one on tv.

@stopscammingman 7 лет назад

Harry Houdini would have done this job well.

@creepin93 6 лет назад

shoulder pads???

@Nautilus1972 6 лет назад

Lord of the Rings. That was Earth.

@Moontanman 8 лет назад

Batshitcrazy people might do that... I am way too fat...

@Macandi293 Год назад

That’s a dumb analogy in not damaging the cave from not letting someone get enough space to get around.

@Sharepie 5 лет назад

Ants have graveyards...

@ericf7063 7 лет назад

Feels like he talking to a Jr. High class. Is there an adult version?

@koosbos1114 4 года назад

So,,,, this is in Africa , why not portrait her with African typy curly hair ???? I noticed this over and over in the reconstruction of pre historic people ,,,, why ????

@ScoriacTears 5 лет назад

Funny how all those phd's are still not trusted with the treasure eh, having to be supervised by cctv, hmmm yeah funny that, it would appear someone in the "team" is a rather misanthropic archaeologist.

@surfk9836 4 года назад

Cctv is to document for us and safety. Obviously you are not a phd.

@hayleywood2991 8 лет назад

a team of all women scientists!!!!!!!

@sauronGrosroux 8 лет назад

plot twist : its a dinosaur !

@33392. 4 года назад

It was a primitive jail they were superstitious they disposed the dead in a ritual

@DaleBasye 8 лет назад

bigfoot eat their dead1

@moulderbrown 8 лет назад

I don't know why they put Casey Neistat in the thumbnail. Ffs, he's a modern human. I lost my respect for this channel.

@randyskyfrogjr.unintention8531 4 года назад

Weird spot to put dead people.

@sammie140 5 лет назад

Most American will not fit in that tiny hole.

@mr.actiongal1017 8 лет назад

the different is, people wear socks..

@slaapkonijn58 8 лет назад

FUCK..... im not human?! my life is a lie!

@DaleBasye 8 лет назад

what mirror to you use?

@mr.actiongal1017 8 лет назад

and clothes???? lol

@mr.actiongal1017 8 лет назад

and furies dont count*

@Kylecummings777 8 лет назад

We never evolved. We are just on the downfall since the beginning.

@Zelticon 7 лет назад

Explore?! You mean leave the safety of my nest?! I think not good sir; not after that claustrophobic nightmare-fuel intro.

@blackheart1546 8 лет назад

Everything you ask for will find Guava

@pacifront83 6 лет назад

A feminist plot twist, but stay with me people! He touches each and every one of these women with a hug, a slight massage, and even a cheeky kiss.

@fridgemagnet9831 5 лет назад

I saw that, I think its no big deal

@heregoben 8 лет назад

bruh I really don't care anymore

@mejoresmomentos7279 8 лет назад

Necios ,que buscan lo que ya saben.....

@liwang2349 8 лет назад

frist comment

@marksnyder9243 6 лет назад

The Catholic church said evolution happened and the old testament should not be taken literally.

@FusionDeveloper 8 лет назад

Finding fossils is cool, but if they aren't put back where they were found and our records and fossils we store above ground get destroyed, then history will be erased. I am just bringing up an observation and opinion based on my very limited understanding and would like to get some information that assures me that I am wrong.