C’est le jour du Paleonews! 🤩
#paleo #paléontologie #megalodon #homosapiens #evolution #smilodon #Homonaledi #pterosaures et plein d’autre News 🥳

https://youtu.be/oGYhHsloa9k?si=aJrzc1oc0hKSRVM6

I've been going down the whole #HomoNaledi drama rabbit hole (or hominin cave) and all I keep thinking about is how much Homo Naledi looks like it comes from the Planet of the Apes. #RisingStar

I just finished Unknown Cave of Bones on Netflix, about the discovery of a burial ground of Homo Naledi in a Cave system.

The symbolism of groups carrying their loved ones remains through life-threatening passageways is profound. To walk with their loved one and sort of walk them halfway to the afterlife, experiencing grief and trauma en route is staggering to me. It fills me with a sense of connectedness.

#HomoNaledi #UnknownCaveOfBones #CaveOfBones

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/05/world/homo-naledi-burials-carvings-scn/index.html

Pues resulta que los #Hashtags son old school, precediendo incluso a los humanos.
#Archeology #Arqueología #Cuevas #HomoNaledi #espeleología

The #homonaledi papers might be the first high-profile test of #eLife new model of publishing reviewed preprints.

eLife reviewed the preprint and assessed it as follows: "... would be a landmark finding. However, the evidence for these claims is considered inadequate..."

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89106

At the same time, the Daily Princetonian reports that the "groundbreaking discoveries" have been "accepted" for publication.

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/07/princeton-ancient-human-relatives-buried-in-south-africa-national-geographic-anthropology-professor

"Homo Naledi Burial? A Public Peer Review of the Evidence"

This is an in-depth critique of the recently presented evidence for Homo naledi burial several hundred thousand years ago

See it here: https://youtu.be/9iN9t393QQI

cc: @archaedons. #archaeology #Homonaledi

Did #Homonaledi, make #CaveArt? #Problems, #possibilities, and the way forward with Genevieve von Petzinger, today at 10 am. https://youtu.be/31OMSXraZDo #paleoanthropology #anthropology #archaeology #naledi #human #art #cognition #behavior #hominin #risingstar #southafrica

💀 #Homonaledi

"It is quite remarkable...
If... If the findings are well proven."

Arguments for and against publicly sharing hypotheses as soon as possible.
https://twitter.com/riveramichael/status/1667062184017539073

💀 Prima facie... it seems #Homonaledi made burials, marks, and fire too.

But taking things at first view is not the way of science

"I believe the extraordinary should be pursued but...
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
Carl Sagan

Lee Berger Announcement of Homo naledi Burial & Cave Etchings [youtube video 23m15s] https://youtu.be/fFbgQhY4Yxw #HomoNaledi #archaeology #anthropology

Endocast morphology of #Homonaledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa Ralph L Holloway et al

"Despite the small size of the Homo naledi endocasts, they share several aspects of structure in common with other species of Homo, not found in other hominins or great apes, notably in the organization of the inferior frontal and lateral orbital gyri"

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1720842115

“Decades ago, we thought Homo sapiens were the only ones who could figure out how to use fire, bury their dead or create art, said Chris Stringer, a human evolution expert at London's Natural History Museum who was not involved in the research.” #dna #ancientdna #homonaledi #neandertal #isogg #geneadons https://www.businessinsider.com/ancient-humans-had-brains-a-third-the-size-but-showed-complex-thinking-2023-6

👣 Mysterious species buried their dead and carved symbols 100,000 years before humans 🌍

« During the work to identify the cave burials, the scientists also found a number of symbols engraved on the cave walls, which are estimated to be between 241,000 and 335,000 years old, but they want to continue their testing for more precise dating »

https://us.cnn.com/2023/06/05/world/homo-naledi-burials-carvings-scn/index.html #HomoNaledi

#HomoNaledi were burying their #dead at least 100,000 years before #humans
Team discoverd H. naledi bodies deposited in fetal positions, indicating intentional #burials predating earliest known burials by #HomoSapiens by 100,000yr, suggesting brain size might not be definitive factor behind such complex behavior. Team also found crosshatched symbols engraved on the walls of the cave that could date as far back as 241,000–335,000 years, although testing is still ongoing.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/anthropologists-find-evidence-that-homo-naledi-buried-their-dead-used-symbols/

After nearly a decade, we may have answers as to whether or not #homonaledi #buried their #dead. Not only this but all the advanced behavior involved with it. See for yourself, as well as some fantastic alleged #naledi #engravings.

https://worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2023/06/05/2740/

🧵 #Homonaledi
https://twitter.com/MDPetraglia/status/1665872648985780224

always mystified why scientists solely use brain size to predict intelligence/ability to have complex society & behaviors (us ornithologists learned the folly of this decades ago)

#Homonaledi https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/06/05/homo-naledi-burial/

👇 #HomoNaledi
"So many questions..."
https://twitter.com/ChrisStringer65/status/1665781353881714690

Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans.

The brains belonging to the extinct species, known as Homo naledi, were around one-third the size of a modern human brain.

#Paleoanthropology #HomoNaledi #Evolution #Science #Caves
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/05/world/homo-naledi-burials-carvings-scn/index.html

Ars Technica: Homo naledi were burying their dead at least 100,000 years before humans https://arstechnica.com/?p=1944345 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #RisingStarcavesystem #cradleofhumankind #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #anthropology #Archaeology #homonaledi #Science #Hominin #science