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  • Why Naledi Was In Caves

    From James McGinn@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 12 15:54:15 2023
    Caves would have been a very important part of a community's larger strategy to survive predatory massacres during the depth of the deadly dry season (as described in the link below).

    We can think of caves as having been kind of a fortress.

    How Human actually evolved:
    https://youtu.be/Z7TwiVul7F0

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 13 11:26:19 2023
    kudu runner:
    Caves would have been a very important part of a community's larger strategy

    :-DDD

    Most cave findings are simply fossil accumulations of animals that died in rivers etc.

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  • From James McGinn@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Apr 13 17:57:04 2023
    On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 11:26:20 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    kudu runner:
    Caves would have been a very important part of a community's larger strategy
    :-DDD

    Most cave findings are simply fossil accumulations of animals that died in rivers etc.

    In Naledi the fossils are all hominid (that alone calls out for explanation, why so few other species?). and it seems they all went into the caves deliberately and possibly, I speculate, under conditions of desperation (ie. escaping a predatory massacre).
    They may even have hurt themselves getting in. The layout of the bones suggests they died there rather than having been disposed of or ritualistically buried in the cave. I think they went in there, couldn't get out, and starved to death.

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