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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.
Homo naledi is an extinct species of archaic human discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star Cave system, ... In 2015, excavating archaeologists Paul Dirks, Lee Berger ...
The cousin of homo sapiens, called homo naledi, was discovered in 2013 in a cave called Rising Star, outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. ... to 330,000 years ago according to Lee Berger, the ...
Unknown: Cave of Bones is a Netflix documentary about paleontologist Lee Berger's work at Rising Star Cave. [1] [2] [3] References
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.
The Virgin Galactic 03 space trip included some fossilized remains of ancient human relatives Australopithecus sebida and Homo naledi.. Passenger Timothy Nash brought the items, originally ...
Cross-section of the Rising Star Cave system . The Underground Astronauts is the name given to a group of six scientists, Hannah Morris, Marina Elliott, Becca Peixotto, Alia Gurtov, K. Lindsay (then Eaves) Hunter, [1] and Elen Feuerriegel, who excavated the bones of Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system in Gauteng, South Africa.
On 20 February 2014, Rick Hunter, Lee Berger, John Hawks, Alia Gurtov, and Pedro Boshoff returned to Rising Star to evaluate a second potential site. The site, designated UW-102 (or U.W.102 , aka Lesedi Chamber), [ 9 ] was found by cavers Rick Hunter and Steve Tucker on the last day of the first Rising Star Expedition, and limited excavation ...