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Excavation ongoing burial sites in South Africa · Mysteria

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🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave

Rising Star Cave — Homo Naledi Chamber

Middle Pleistocene (335–236 ka Homo naledi deposition) · Homo naledi (small brain 460 cc)

Rising Star Cave system (20–30 m dolomite horizon, 3 km passages) yielded 1,550+ Homo naledi fossils (15 individuals) in Dinaledi Chamber (2013) and Lesedi Chamber (2015) by Berger.