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Trailblazing Archaeologist Puts South African Women in SET on the Map


Trailblazing Archaeologist Puts South African Women in SET on the Map
Top 10 News / July 6, 2021 July 6, 2021 / 1 minute of reading
South African archaeologist and biological anthropologist Keneiloe Molopyane, also known as Bones, was recently named a 2021 Emerging Explorer by the National Geographic Society. The 33-year-old first made a name for herself as a member of the second group of “underground astronauts” so called because “we are going into spaces that very few people have gone before,” she explains. The original crew, comprised of six female scientists, garnered the world’s attention in 2015 when they helped unearth the remains of a previously unknown human species. Now called Homo naledi, the remains were found deep in the Rising Star cave system roughly an hour’s drive northwest of Johannesburg. In 2019, following her successful expedition back into the Dinaledi and Lesedi chambers of the Rising Star Cave system to unearth more Homo naledi remain ....

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South Africa's 'underground astronauts': Exploring dark corridors in cramped conditions


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Cramped conditions and dark corridors: What it s like to be one of South Africa s underground astronauts
By John Lewis, CNN
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Archaeologist and biological anthropologist Keneiloe Molopyane became a member of the second generation of South Africa s underground astronauts in 2018 tasked with traversing the Rising Star cave system through very extreme conditions in order to get to the famed Homo naledi fossil site. She is seen here en route to the Dinaledi Chamber coming out of Superman s Crawl, a passage less than 25 centimeters in height.
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In 2019, she returned to Rising Star with a team to further excavate the second site where additional bones belonging to Homo naledi were found, including the most complete skeleton to date. Here, the team works in the Lesedi Chamber. ....

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