Seminar with Professors Lee Berger, Agustin Fuentes, and John Hawks

The Rising Star cave system presents an unparalleled skeletal  record of a nonhuman hominin species in exactly the time and place most  archaeologists thought that modern humans evolved. This paradox raises  many questions about the  nature of this species and our own, and our possible interactions. We  have come together to examine our understanding of the human niche and  to share some of the insights from our more recent work in this cave  system that may lead to greater understanding  of the place of Homo naledi within our greater understanding of  hominin, and human, evolution.