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Deep within a cave in South Africa, more than 1,200 individual bones of a new human ancestor, Homo naledi, were discovered. To recover the bones, six archaeologists had to rappel down underground shafts and squeeze through rocky passageways as narrow as 18 centimeters (8 in).
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@Pantheragatos 9 лет назад

I'll tell you one thing, you guys were pretty brave to crawl through some of those passages. I think that alone would have been terrifying! Great job!! I can't wait to see the rest of this.

@Gurubashy 8 лет назад

Oh man, you really have to be brave to go down there. I would pass out just thinking that I could get stuck.

@barbaralatham3584 6 лет назад

I love to look at Lee Berger’s face. He has the happiest smile I’ve ever seen and it always makes me smile, too!

@AakashKalaria 9 лет назад

Congratulations to all who were involved (directly and indirectly) but How did they discover this place?

@ericheydenreich2846 9 лет назад

Thanks to them, we have some more information and questions about our history!

@rhondamagee7459 9 лет назад

Great show...I watched the video last night on PBS! What a great find! There is noooooooo way I would have been able to do something like this, claustrophobia would have strangled me, OMG! Great finds ladies, CONGRATS!!!

@Anonymoose 9 лет назад

To have been able to just *be* there would be the thrill of a lifetime!

@drugfuck 4 года назад

of a lifetime? What these women have done is change the history of human civilisation. Their names will be in school AND UNIVERSITY TEXTS for the rest of time. That makes my head spin

@hollyTM 9 лет назад

I would be completely terrified if I had to go through that cave.

@martiniusafricanus1558 7 лет назад

Awesome Ladies 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼!

@MariaGarcia281 9 лет назад

I saw it on PBS last night! So much information was learned Maybe that area wasn't so confined back then and was easily accessible to these naledi's What a great opportunity it was for these women that qualified for this descent based on their small size/stature Amazing knowing how there were more than one human species long ago (unrelated to this video)...

@jdastro 7 лет назад

Spelunker definition, a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.

@stevefisher2553 4 года назад

On display now at the Perot museum in Dallas

@kennethbush2299 5 лет назад

Bravery .beauty and brains and there was only six in the world . no wonder I couldn't find one they all were in a cave in Africa I couldn't fit into . God bless all you wemen have a great life.

@smokeyninja9920 2 года назад

1:57 Should probably have an epilepsy warning for that...

@eikosiandmiloloverasmr4214 2 года назад

that's what I also thought

@mmmodafoca 9 лет назад

no way i just so happened to watch a very similar documentary on Nova from PBS last night.. very amazing discovery, and what i got from it is that Evolution might not be as linear/branch like as we had presume it to be. My only fear is that the religiously incline will take this reasonable doubt in evolution and will use it to convince people that it (evolution) is all wrong.

@capt.paulsavoy1942 2 года назад

how did the H. Naledi individuals get down there? Were the bones deposited by erosion or predation/scavenging, or did they live/die down there? did there used to be easier entry?

@robintrehaeven6800 2 года назад

No to all of the above. These 3 options mentioned have exhaustively been examined by the scientific team and been established as untenable. The fossils were found in 2013 and as of the time of writing (2022) the original hypothesis advanced by the team that this appears to be a case of ritualized disposal has not been successfully challenged by any additional data. The scientific team is a large interdisciplinary one made up of South African and international scientists. All the data gathered so far, and most of the scientific papers published about these fossils, is freely accessible to anyone who wants access to it. There are therefore no barriers to anyone who might wish to advance an alternative explanation for the deposition of the remains. But so far no one has been able to do so.

@capt.paulsavoy1942 2 года назад

@@robintrehaeven6800 thanks!

@topsykrett3337 9 лет назад

How did the fossils get down there. Very interesting video,

@AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible 9 лет назад

+Namaste Valentino The age distribution seems to be bimodal, young and old, just like a modern cemetery. Pretty profound implications.

@1oldgit 9 лет назад

+Namaste Valentino What I thought. How did they decide to look in that cave ? Why such a difficult place ? Maybe easier to get to thousands of years ago ?

@OrangeblossomCraftsCanada 9 лет назад

+Justa Rider Because that's the thrill of a caver (spellunker/potholer/etc). Their thrill is squeezing into tight, possibly never traveled places to explore a new world of sorts.

@1oldgit 9 лет назад

+Orangeblossom Can get the thrill bit but why did they decide to look at that particular cave and looks very difficult to get to for whoever/whatever put the bones there originally..seemed a bit too random to me.

@OrangeblossomCraftsCanada 9 лет назад

Justa Rider It may be that there was a local legend around the place, so the modern cavers went to explore. The beings didn't put the bodies there randomly, they believe it was a burial place with many bodies over a period of time. I imagine it'd be far easier to 'place' a body down a dark hole, than have to bury a body. Even worse, dealing with wild animals digging up loved ones. Not to mention smell, emotion or other strange 'evils' (disease) that could curse the tribe if the bodies stayed out in the open nearby. Maybe as far as they knew (I'm guessing here) by being put in that cave pit, their loved ones went into the underworld, the land of the dead. Also keep in mind those beings had a much slimmer, shorter frame. Their biggest men could be as slim as a modern female human. A tight squeeze for you might be a very open tunnel for them.

@kuriaki71 9 лет назад

Awesome

@janedoe5836 9 лет назад

This reminds me of the movie The Descent. Luckily these ancestral humans are long dead...

@DennisNDanaReynolds 9 лет назад

Great job.Women rule! I have been in big caves but there is no way i would crawl into places that tight.These people are way braver that me.lol

@alexburrup 7 лет назад

The comment regarding burials pales into insignificance when realizing these early hominids must have been able to use fire in order to access the inaccessible cave. investigation of the cave for deposits of soot must now be an urgent priority.

@jeans629 3 года назад

I can never

@jeffp.8718 Год назад

I'd have to see one of those women carry and drag another one all that way up and down and through those crevices in complete darkness with no equipment to believe it's even possible to get someone that far. There must be another explanation.

@orbchords533 Год назад

Is there soot buildup?

@gnarlyandy1 8 лет назад

sweet

@johnnyb8629 9 лет назад

People seem to be misled by this video, the fact that they are all female isn't significant because they are cavers, it's significant because they are highly educated degree holding paleontologists and anthropologists and or a combination related degrees making them the only people qualified as well as sized to do this dig. These fields of science ARE dominated by men and its a good ol boys club, and for these women who have to work twice as hard as men to get their degrees have this situation fall on their laps is like a miracle. I bet many men were grinding their teeth because they couldn't get this gig. My sister is a phd archeologist and her degree is anthropology and she has experienced the male dominant good ol boys club in science and told me first hand about it, it's sad because history has shown many times that women are just as important to science as men if not more.

@MrGuyweinstein 9 лет назад

How do women have to work harder to get degrees? Women find it easier to enter universities and colleges, they enter the same final exams as men and women simply don't usually go for these kind of jobs in the first place . They usually would prefer jobs of education an health (in according to the degrees they get). And any anthropologist would be mad at not getting this gig. They are excavating a NEW SPECIES OF HOMO. To say only men would be mad at this is well, misandry. You imply men are mad because they (as men) did not get the job. That means you imply that all male scientists are misogynistic. Please show me your source that shows women have to work twice as hard, that claim is quite ridiculous.

@OrangeblossomCraftsCanada 9 лет назад

+guy weinstein Entering into the classroom is not the same as being at the top (or wanting to) of your field. It's easy enough for anyone to get in a class if they have the money, but influence later in life is where the real 'test' is. Unfortunately it's a battle of genders for a lot of things, unfair one way or another.

@MrGuyweinstein 9 лет назад

Orangeblossom well being the top of your field is up to you. there isnt anything stopping you. its simple, women dont like being scientists as much as men do. thats why you see the title of this video. and if anything, WOMEN turn everything into a "gender battle" the fact that we call different sets of hobbies a battle is pathetic. everyone should let other people do what they want, and stop criticizing others for their errors, unless they want to be criticized for what they do.

@OrangeblossomCraftsCanada 9 лет назад

guy weinstein Have you read the studies that show women are at a disadvantage still? That 'battle of genders' (as much as I dislike the word) is still going on. Even just 20 years ago, a stay at home dad was considered a slacker or something wrong with him. It's not really the case anymore...in some parts of the world. But the rest of the world is still stuck on some old beliefs & that's going to take a lot more time before that can change. "everyone should let other people do what they want" I couldn't agree more, and I'm very much hoping that day comes sooner than later.

@MrGuyweinstein 9 лет назад

Orangeblossom old world: third world countries we cant do anything about. and women at disadvantages? The study found that men receive sentences that are 63 percent higher, on average, than their female counterparts. Sonja Starr also found that females arrested for a crime are also significantly more likely to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted. you mean disadvantage in workplace, and even there it has been proven time after time that its women who CHOOSE not to be in high paying jobs, ask for raises, and work less hours. Males are also more likely to be murder victims (76.8%), women make more money in their 30's and women are the majority of people who graduate from colleges. but men dont complain because shit happens and we know why and how it happens and how to prevent it. in short, women are complaining about nonsense that they shouldn't demand for in the first place. they live in capitalist, democratic countries with literally no boundaries. the whine about bullshit and expect to be taken seriously. nigga plz.

@waltercarlos2872 6 лет назад

The Descent anyone?

@jdastro 7 лет назад

Anyone ever heard of the word "spelunker"?

@michealray4895 Год назад

Weird that those women stumbled across the same footage as the video 2 years prior filmed by south african men...

@GORO911 6 лет назад

just bought Far Cry primal after watching this

@akshatshah3717 9 лет назад

First!!!

@outled 9 лет назад

i am not subscribed to this channel, their subscription figures are fictitious.

@internetvide0 9 лет назад

+Outled It's natgeo they used to have the most popular magazine in the world.

@rubenscott3972 9 лет назад

Mmm no not true women are just moving much more now we are just always late to notice anything

@luminous3357 2 года назад

⏩Oh bummer...us men won't fit down there. I guess we'll have to let some chicks to do it.

@spraakkanon 4 года назад

Woke culture brrrrr

@drugfuck 4 года назад

Written by someone with no understanding of either Africa or human civilisation. Do you use that word because you think it gives you some credibility with your friends or because you don't know an appropriate? What these women have done is given humanity an entirely new species. Try getting your head round that. I bet you're American

@janedoe5836 9 лет назад

This reminds me of the movie The Descent. Luckily these ancestral humans are long dead...