“We ain’t gonna get over that.” ‘Still a lot to uncover’ “Homo naledi tells us we’re not that special,” Berger, a United States-born explorer, told AFP news agency. Those found in South Africa by the research team led by Berger, whose previous announcements have been controversial, date back to at least 200,000 BC. The oldest burials previously unearthed, found in the Middle East and Africa, contained the remains of Homo sapiens – and were around 100,000 years old. The findings challenge the current understanding of human evolution, as it is normally held that the development of bigger brains allowed for the performing of complex, “meaning-making” activities such as burying the dead.
National Geographic’s explorer-in-residence Lee Berger’s daughter, Megan, and underground exploration team member Rick Hunter navigate the narrow chutes leading to the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star Cave in South Africa
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“These are the most ancient interments yet recorded in the hominin record, earlier than evidence of Homo sapiens interments by at least 100,000 years,” the scientists wrote in a series of yet-to-be-peer-reviewed and preprint papers to be published in eLife. Led by renowned palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger, researchers said on Monday that they discovered several specimens of Homo naledi – a tree-climbing, Stone Age hominid – buried about 30 metres (100 feet) underground in a cave system within the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site near Johannesburg. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.Palaeontologists in South Africa said they have found the oldest-known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behaviour. Geronimo was an Apache leader in the 19th century.
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More than 100 years after his death the Native American warrior’s name is back in the news when it was revealed that ‘Geronimo’ was the code name used for Osama Bin Laden while the U.S. Special forces plotted to kill him.īorn in what would later become New Mexico in 1829, Geronimo spent many years successfully fighting Mexican and U.S. when he and 35 warriors surrendered to Gen. Nelson Miles near the Arizona-New Mexico border. Geronimo was sent to an Army outpost at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, where he eventually died of pneumonia in 1909. In 1918, according to legend, members of the secret Skull and Bones club at Yale (including, allegedly, former President George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush) dug up Geronimo’s grave when a group of Army volunteers from Ivy League school was stationed at Fort Sill during World War I.
The grave robbers took Geronimo’s skull and some of his bones. On the 99th anniversary of Geronimo’s death a group of 20 of the warrior’s decendants sued the U.S. government, Skull and Bones and Yale in an attempt to rebury their ancestor’s bones near his birthplace. In 2010 Judge Richard Roberts granted a Justice Department motion to dismiss the suit. Geronimo’s relatives, he said, failed to establish that the government waived its right not to be sued. Roberts alsoĭismissed the lawsuit against Skull and Bones and Yale, saying the plaintiffs cited a law that applies only to Native American cultural items excavated or discovered after 1990. Though Skull and Bones is often known as a Yale organization, the college has never officially recognized it. Bush was asked on ‘Meet The Press’ about Skull and Bones he said, ‘it’s so secret we can’t talk about it.’ Don Oldenburg of the Washington Post wrote: ‘Conspiracy theorists have a field day over the fact that Bonesmen were among the founders of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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