Please post this for me. We are traveling and do not have a Real Coputer Dwight
Sent from Samsung tablet -------- Original message -------- From David Riskind <david.risk...@tpwd.texas.gov> Date: 09/11/2015 10:07 AM (GMT-05:00) To "'dirt...@comcast.net'" <dirt...@comcast.net> Subject FW: NPR.org - South African Cave Yields Strange Bones Of Early Human-Like Species For further reading They maintained a blog during the initial cave investigations and excavations (funded by National Geographic, and this may well be the last great project ever funded by that group). http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/blog/rising-star-expedition/?order=asc Feel free to read the fully open access, peer-reviewed report by the PI ( a respected paleoanthropologist with decades of experience) and his team (including several other respected paleoanths) here: http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e09560 Here’s the fully open access, peer-reviewed report on the geological and taphonomic setting, which helps to possibly answer some of your questions about cave setting, as well as possibility of rodents and other critters: http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e09561 From what I’ve read in the reports and various blog summaries and interviews, they suggest intentional deposition (as opposed to ritual burial) after having eliminated any other reasonable explanation, based on the geology, taphonomy, analysis of the skeletal remains, etc. Here’s one such summary by a bioarchaeologist and blogger, who approached it critically and skeptically: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/09/10/did-homo-naledi-bury-its-dead-mummified-chimp-babies-might-help-us-find-an-answer/
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