Homo naledi

Question 1

Where did Homo naledi live?

Answer 1

South Africa

Question 2

When did Homo naledi live?

Answer 2

300kya

Question 3

What is the story of Homo naledi’s discovery?

Answer 3

-discovered by two spelunkers who told Lee Berger
-need to get through a 7 in gap to get into the cave
-recruited tiny anthropologists to retrieve fossils

Question 4

Homo naledi characteristics

Answer 4

~500 cc
-wisdom tooth the biggest molar
-snouty face
-no chin
-browridge
-supratoral sulcus
-curved fingers
-long thumb
-shrugged shoulders
-flared ilia
-human-like foot but flat
-curved toes

Question 5

Homo naledi culture

Answer 5

-controlled fire but did not create it
-burial?? (probably not berger is just an attention whore)
-pushed dead into the shaft: all femora and tibia broken in same place, no animal fossils, concentration of fossils decreases as you move down slope
-skull of child placed on shelf

Question 6

H. naledi individuals

Answer 6

-Neo:
-adult skeleton
-LES 1
-610 cc
-Letimela/lost one:
- skull of 4-5 yr old child
-placed on a limestone shelf
- no bite marks/ water transfer means deliberate placement