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Lee Rogers Berger (born December 22, 1965) is an American-born South African paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. [1] [2] [3] He is best known for his discovery of the Australopithecus sediba type site, Malapa; [4] his leadership of Rising Star Expedition in the excavation of Homo naledi at Rising Star Cave; [5] and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis.
Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence (such as petrified skeletal remains, bone fragments, footprints) and cultural ...
The first fossil find was a right clavicle, MH1 (UW88-1), in Malapa Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, discovered by 9-year-old Matthew Berger on 15 August 2008 while exploring the digsite headed by his father, South African palaeoanthropologist Lee Rogers Berger.
In 2008, Lee Berger discovered the partial remains of two hominids (Australopithecus sediba) who lived between 1.78 and 1.95 million years ago in the Malapa Fossil Site. In October 2013, Berger commissioned geologist Pedro Boshoff to investigate cave systems in the Cradle of Humankind for the express purpose of discovering more fossil hominin ...
In March 2008, Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, undertook an exploration project in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site outside of Johannesburg, in order to map the known caves identified by him and his colleagues over the past several decades, and to place known fossil sites onto Google Earth so that information could be shared with colleagues. [1]
Dawn of Humanity [1] is a 2015 American documentary film that was released online on September 10, 2015, and aired nationwide in the United States on September 16, 2015. The PBS NOVA National Geographic film, in one episode of two hours, was directed and produced by Graham Townsley.
Matthew Berger and Lee Rogers Berger: University of the Witwatersrand: KNM-ER 1813: 1.90 Homo habilis: 1973 Kenya: Kamoya Kimeu: KNM-ER 1470: 1.90 Homo rudolfensis: 1972 Kenya: Bernard Ngeneo [36] SK 48: 2.25–1.80 Paranthropus robustus: 1948 Swartkrans, South Africa: Robert Broom: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History SK 46 [37] 2.25–1 ...
Homo naledi is an extinct species of archaic human discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star Cave system, Gauteng province, South Africa (See Cradle of Humankind), dating to the Middle Pleistocene 335,000–236,000 years ago.