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Unknown: Cave of Bones

Follows Paleo anthropologist Lee Berger in South Africa, as he and his team try to prove that the world's oldest graveyard they found, is not human. A small brained, ape-like creature could have practiced complex burial rituals.

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Mark Mannucci

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You've gotta remember,
Homo naledi is one of the great mysteries - Unknown: Cave of Bones

You've gotta remember, Homo naledi is one of the great ...

{\an8}Unraveling this mystery,
that's going to take a huge team. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

{\an8}Unraveling this mystery, that's going to take a h...

[MOLOPYANE] It is definitely
a love-hate relationship - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[MOLOPYANE] It is definitely a love-hate relationship

Welcome to Rising Star. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Welcome to Rising Star.

Watch your head here. It's a bit low. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Watch your head here. It's a bit low.

To be able to, you know, even over
this computer and touch this stuff. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

To be able to, you know, even over this computer and touch t...

[MOLOPYANE] All right. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[MOLOPYANE] All right.

[MOLOPYANE] We're going to
Dragon's Back Chamber today. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[MOLOPYANE] We're going to Dragon's Back Chamber t...

[MUSIC FADES OUT] - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[MUSIC FADES OUT]

[BEEPING] - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[PERSON OVER SPEAKER] ...and watch TV. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[PERSON OVER SPEAKER] ...and watch TV.

This is the gateway to the place
where Homo naledi took their dead. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

This is the gateway to the place where Homo naledi took thei...

Think of the gateways
to the Valley of the Kings. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Think of the gateways to the Valley of the Kings.

What was going on here in front
of the entrance to the Dinaledi Chamber? - Unknown: Cave of Bones

What was going on here in front of the entrance to the Dinal...

So you can pass this along. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

So you can pass this along.

29.3 centimeters. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

29.3 centimeters.

[BERGER] We're trying to reconstruct
the life of a creature - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] We're trying to reconstruct the life of a crea...

Whether your bones are
from 50 years ago to 100,000 years ago, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Whether your bones are from 50 years ago to 100,000 years ag...

[BERGER] And that's where we went
in those initial papers, with, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] And that's where we went in those initial pape...

In 2018, we returned back
into the Dinaledi Chamber to excavate. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

In 2018, we returned back into the Dinaledi Chamber to excav...

[HAWKS] Paleoanthropologists have found
hundreds of fossils other than Homo naledi - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[HAWKS] Paleoanthropologists have found hundreds of fossils ...

Okay, I think this is... - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Okay, I think this is...

[BERGER] So... - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] You know, you look
at that staining on his teeth, it is... - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] You know, you look at that staining on his teeth, i...

[BERGER] That looks more like a face. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] That looks more like a face.

[HAWKS] Okay. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[EXHALING] - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Oh, that... is... beautiful. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Oh, that... is... beautiful.

Beautiful. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[CHUCKLING] - Unknown: Cave of Bones

They're so like us
and so absolutely not like us. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

They're so like us and so absolutely not like us.

[HAWKS] Across the skeleton, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[HAWKS] Across the skeleton,

And other features that look like
some of the earliest hominins. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

And other features that look like some of the earliest homin...

[FUENTES]
You gotta take with a grain of salt - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[FUENTES] You gotta take with a grain of salt

she would walk in on two legs, right? - Unknown: Cave of Bones

she would walk in on two legs, right?

It would be alien to us. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

It would be alien to us.

[FUENTES] She might even look back at us
and we would see something in her eyes. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[FUENTES] She might even look back at us and we would see so...

It'd strike us as human,
but not like you and me. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

It'd strike us as human, but not like you and me.

There's a ton of different members
of the genus Homo - Unknown: Cave of Bones

There's a ton of different members of the genus Homo

The genus Homo
is the only genus on the planet - Unknown: Cave of Bones

The genus Homo is the only genus on the planet

is a stone tool. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

is a stone tool.

[BERGER] Today, we're going
on the grand cave tour. [CHUCKLING] - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] Today, we're going on the grand cave tour. [CH...

Just watch your step here, Agustin. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Just watch your step here, Agustin.

[BERGER]
Wait till I'm clear, I'll tell you when. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] Wait till I'm clear, I'll tell you when.

[MAN] Come right up here. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[MAN] Come right up here.

[MUSIC FADES OUT] - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[MUSIC FADES OUT]

I'd say that's, like, a small... - Unknown: Cave of Bones

I'd say that's, like, a small...

If you fall or slip,
just hold yourself there. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

If you fall or slip, just hold yourself there.

[MAN] Do you have enough light there? - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[MAN] Do you have enough light there?

[MUSIC BECOMES OMINOUS] - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[MUSIC BECOMES OMINOUS]

[BERGER] And down you go,
12 vertical meters - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] And down you go, 12 vertical meters

[FUENTES] I don't care how many
measurements you offer of this, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[FUENTES] I don't care how many measurements you offer ...

And now think about,
you know, that journey with zero light. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

And now think about, you know, that journey with zero light.

And I'm going to use that
to walk down into this area. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

And I'm going to use that to walk down into this area.

Need a family member to bring some fire? - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Need a family member to bring some fire?

[FUENTES] Fire changes the way you
perceive, sense, and experience the world. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[FUENTES] Fire changes the way you perceive, sense, and expe...

You're seeing different. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

You're seeing different.

That climb up Dragon's Back, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

That climb up Dragon's Back,

[BERGER] Just imagining
what it must have taken - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] Just imagining what it must have taken

And your culture, I guess,
tells you that now, here, we do this. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

And your culture, I guess, tells you that now, here, we do t...

They dragged that body, three, four,
five of them carried that body, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

They dragged that body, three, four, five of them carried th...

[GROANS FAINTLY] - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[GROANS FAINTLY]

[BERGER] And then they had to crawl, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] And then they had to crawl,

That body, was it loose?
Was it rigor mortis? - Unknown: Cave of Bones

That body, was it loose? Was it rigor mortis?

And then, them looking down the Chute... - Unknown: Cave of Bones

And then, them looking down the Chute...

They probably dig it together. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

They probably dig it together.

[HAWKS] When we look at what naledi did, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[HAWKS] When we look at what naledi did,

When an individual dies,
they come together socially, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

When an individual dies, they come together socially,

Did they sit and hold hands
after they buried the body? - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Did they sit and hold hands after they buried the body?

When we think, you know, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

When we think, you know,

They went back and back
and back into these spaces, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

They went back and back and back into these spaces,

Then they drag themselves,
they crawl through on the way out. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

Then they drag themselves, they crawl through on the way out...

What do they do right then in that moment? - Unknown: Cave of Bones

What do they do right then in that moment?

[MUSIC FADES OUT] - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[MUSIC FADES OUT]

You can watch monkeys all day.
Or at least I can. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

You can watch monkeys all day. Or at least I can.

They're letting the little guy have it. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

They're letting the little guy have it.

When these monkeys experience a loss... - Unknown: Cave of Bones

When these monkeys experience a loss...

they're gonna feel it deeply, emotionally, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

they're gonna feel it deeply, emotionally,

The others may gather around,
poke it, spend time with it. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

The others may gather around, poke it, spend time with it.

But they're not gonna respond as a group.
They're not gonna respond systematically. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

But they're not gonna respond as a group. They're ...

What we're seeing in naledi,
what we see in us, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

What we're seeing in naledi, what we see in us,

[BERGER] Homo naledi did things
with their dead that no other animal does... - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[BERGER] Homo naledi did things with their dead that no othe...

And so, you have to ask yourself, - Unknown: Cave of Bones

And so, you have to ask yourself,

{\an8}[BERGER] In 2017, my team was conducting
excavations at the base of the Chute. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

{\an8}[BERGER] In 2017, my team was conducting excavations a...

I'm sitting in the command center. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

I'm sitting in the command center.

[HAWKS] You can see
the finger bones and the joints. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[HAWKS] You can see the finger bones and the joints.

[DISTANT INDISTINCT CHATTER] - Unknown: Cave of Bones

[DISTANT INDISTINCT CHATTER]

So, I took it over
to the medical CT scanner - Unknown: Cave of Bones

So, I took it over to the medical CT scanner

{\an8}And you see this body of a child. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

{\an8}And you see this body of a child.

{\an8}[HAWKS] It's crunched
in kind of a fetal position. - Unknown: Cave of Bones

{\an8}[HAWKS] It's crunched in kind of a fetal position...

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Follows Paleo anthropologist Lee Berger in South Africa, as he and his team try to prove that the world's oldest graveyard they found, is not human. A small brained, ape-like creature could have practiced complex burial rituals.

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Director: Mark Mannucci

Writer: N/A

Production: Story Syndicate

Genre: documentary

Year: 2023

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ImdbRating: 6.7

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 17 Jul 2023

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Homepage: https://www.netflix.com/title/81473682