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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.
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]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Cave of Bones is a Netflix documentary about paleontologist Lee Berger's work at Rising Star ...
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.
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 ...
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The fossils recovered were taken from the cave and scrutinized thoroughly by paleoanthropologist Ronald J. Clarke. [ 5 ] In 1994 while searching through museum boxes labelled ' Cercopithecoids ' containing fossil fragments, Ronald J. Clarke identified several that were unmistakably hominin .