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Unknown: Cave of Bones

- You're in what we callthe "Command Center." Uh, it's just the entrance to Rising Star....

[MOLOPYANE] All right. - [CHIME ON COMPUTER]
- [TAPPING ON KEYBOARD] You're in what we call
the "Command Center." Uh, it's just the entrance to Rising Star. It's a artificial entrance
carved out by miners back, I think, in the late 1900s
and early 20th century, looking for lime. The entrance that we think Homo naledi
went in is ten meters away from us, but it's now collapsed. [CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING] So, miners opened up sort of gateways
into the spaces where naledi was. Kilometers of underground
networks of caves. {\an8}And we actually did
an extensive mapping of that

Full Transcript

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[MOLOPYANE] All right.
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- [CHIME ON COMPUTER] - [TAPPING ON KEYBOARD]
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You're in what we call the "Command Center."
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Uh, it's just the entrance to Rising Star.
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It's a artificial entrance carved out by miners
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back, I think, in the late 1900s and early 20th century, looking for lime.
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The entrance that we think Homo naledi went in is ten meters away from us,
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but it's now collapsed.
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[CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
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So, miners opened up sort of gateways into the spaces where naledi was.
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Kilometers of underground networks of caves.
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{\an8}And we actually did an extensive mapping of that.
Duration
54 seconds
Views
53
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:20
Uploaded
Apr 16, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Story Syndicate

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Movie Summary

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.
[MOLOPYANE] We're going to Dragon's Back Chamber today. - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:43
[MOLOPYANE] We're going to Dragon's Back Chamber t...
[MUSIC FADES OUT] - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:17
[MUSIC FADES OUT]
[BEEPING] - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:34
[BEEPING]
[PERSON OVER SPEAKER] ...and watch TV. - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:08
[PERSON OVER SPEAKER] ...and watch TV.
This is the gateway to the place where Homo naledi took their dead. - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:08
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 00:05
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 00:29
What was going on here in front of the entrance to the Dinal...
So you can pass this along. - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:12
So you can pass this along.
29.3 centimeters. - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:06
29.3 centimeters.
[BERGER] We're trying to reconstruct the life of a creature - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:09
[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 00:15
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 00:54
[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 00:07
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 00:29
[HAWKS] Paleoanthropologists have found hundreds of fossils ...
Okay, I think this is... - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:23
Okay, I think this is...
[BERGER] So... - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:17
[BERGER] So...
[BERGER] You know, you look at that staining on his teeth, it is... - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:36
[BERGER] You know, you look at that staining on his teeth, i...
[BERGER] That looks more like a face. - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:13
[BERGER] That looks more like a face.
[HAWKS] Okay. - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:08
[HAWKS] Okay.
[EXHALING] - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:10
[EXHALING]