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Unknown: Cave of Bones

We're going toDragon's Back Chamber today. It hasn't been excavated before. This...

[MOLOPYANE] We're going to
Dragon's Back Chamber today. It hasn't been excavated before. [BERGER] This is where the Chute is. [MOLOPYANE] This chimney
is about 18 centimeters in width that goes down 12 meters. [BERGER] They did this incredible,
terrible journey down that chute, with the dead bodies of their relatives. And this place is the Dinaledi Chamber. And that's where we found
a bunch of holes in the ground with bodies of Homo naledi in them,
and then buried

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[MOLOPYANE] We're going to Dragon's Back Chamber today.
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It hasn't been excavated before.
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[BERGER] This is where the Chute is.
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[MOLOPYANE] This chimney is about 18 centimeters in width
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that goes down 12 meters.
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[BERGER] They did this incredible, terrible journey down that chute,
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with the dead bodies of their relatives.
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And this place is the Dinaledi Chamber.
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And that's where we found a bunch of holes in the ground
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with bodies of Homo naledi in them, and then buried.
Duration
43 seconds
Views
33
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:17
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.
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[BEEPING] - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:34
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[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]
Oh, that... is... beautiful. - Unknown: Cave of Bones 00:11
Oh, that... is... beautiful.