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Sep 5, 2023, 3:39 PM
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Recently saw a cool documentary called Unknown: Cave of Bones on Netflix (2023). It's about the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa. The cave has been open to recreational cavers since the 60's, but only recently have humanoid fossils remains been found there. Here's the cave, and this thing is TIGHT. You'd better be a ballerina or a munchkin if you want in...8" passageways.
The gist of the show is that not only has a new species been recently discovered (2014ish), but now, humanoid bones have been found not just strewn about in the cave, but possibly buried.
The religious implication of this is that if something is burying its dead in the back of an already protected, and virtually inaccessible cave, it might believe in an afterlife. There's the possibility it was buried with tools as well. Further evidence for the idea that "you might need these tools wherever you are going." Fascinating stuff, since the bones could be as old as 300,000 years. About 290,000 years before writing.
Burial pits, with charred evidence of campfires in the cave, too.
Tight spadework in the Dinaledi Chamber
This leads to all kinds of great questions. Who? Why? Some bones are strewn, and some seem buried. Why? Another great mystery.
If you don't have Netflix, here's a Youtube NOVA show on the Rising Star Cave Complex from 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzLJAa5X4Fo
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Sep 5, 2023, 4:46 PM
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If you have to be called a spelunker to do it, I dont want to do whatever it is.
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Sep 5, 2023, 5:32 PM
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Yes the misses is claustrophobic as well. I was glued to the screen watching the show and she was clutching my arm like we were watching a horror movie.
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Sep 5, 2023, 5:47 PM
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Floyd Collins suffered a similar fate in Kentucky in1925. For a happy ending, that Thai soccer team was rescued in a minor miracle a few years ago. They had to anesthetize the kids to get them out through the tight passages without freaking them out. There’s a movie or a documentary about it. Now that was terrifying viewing, but an amazing story with a happy outcome.
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Sep 5, 2023, 5:58 PM
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I don't remember all the details, but I remember thinking that if you didn't know ahead of time it was a true story you would think it was bad fiction. Didn't they have to take them underwater to get back out? Something like that.
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Yeah it was legit amazing. About a dozen preteens plus leaders if I recall. They decided to go caving and a rain storm came on, flooding parts of the cave. So they had to go underwater in some areas to get out. The rescue team wanted to sedate them so they wouldn’t be all “squirmy.” Got ‘‘em all out, one at a time, while they slept due to medication. Remarkable.
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