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September 14, 2015
Deep in the Dark Zone Digging Up Homo Naledi
How they got there is a mystery. The most plausible answer so far: Bodies were dropped in from above. Hundreds of fossils have been recovered, most excavated from a pit a mere yard square. More fossils surely await.Facebook Ad: Skinny individuals wanted, with scientific credentials and caving experience; must be “willing to work in cramped quarters.”
Within a week and a half he’d heard from nearly 60 applicants. He chose the six most qualified; all were young women. Berger called them his “underground astronauts.” .... “Weird as hell,” paleoanthropologist Fred Grine of the State University of New York at Stony Brook later said. “Tiny little brains stuck on these bodies that weren’t tiny.” The adult males were around five feet tall and a hundred pounds, the females a little shorter and lighter. This Face Changes the Human Story. But How?
Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 14, 2015 7:13 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Looks like an xray of Cait.
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at September 14, 2015 7:52 PM
That's just what we need, evidence of another race that failed.,
as if we don't have one failing before our eyes. Our snow white eyes.
Posted by: chasmatic at September 15, 2015 8:41 AM
Ton of extrapolation from that little bit of bone eh? And that's an unusually complete skeleton from that long ago.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 15, 2015 10:22 AM
The true and final resting place of mohammed. And that sob has been telling people he ascended on a horse.....good grief!!
Posted by: Jack at September 15, 2015 10:40 AM
Great story, great find. Cavers are nuts.
Posted by: james wilson at September 15, 2015 11:13 AM
Why are we assuming they are human remains? What does it matter?
All this looking back has done absolutely nothing to aid and assist us in the here and now.
Posted by: chasmatic at September 16, 2015 1:37 AM
Caught a two-hour NOVA covering this on PBS last night. An hour or so of real-time footage on this discovery, maybe a half hour of the scientists involved discussing the find, and a half hour or so of PBS BS (is that redundant?) about man's "family tree". The scientist-in-charge of the dig comes across as a plain-talking, sensible sort, very cautious, which makes his ideas seem plausible. Good watch if it comes your way.
Posted by: BillH at September 17, 2015 10:09 AM