Digital literacy and information fluency (Question 2)
- Trail Blazers-Nthabiseng
- Oct 24, 2016
- 2 min read
The archeological findings by Professor Lee Berger using the information fluency process
ASK
Who was Homo Naledi?
What was so significant about this discovery?
Why is this discovery considered to be ‘groundbreaking’?
ACQUIRE
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ANALYSE
A team of archaeologists led by Professor Lee Berger undertook the Rising Star Expedition and they had made history by discovering and salvaging fossils of at least 15 individuals from the Dinaledi Chamber. This was an evolutionary discovery since a new species of hominines called Homo Naledi was found in the dark, remote chamber.
Homo Naledi have distinct physical features that are astonishingly similar to that of a human being such as:
Curved fingers
Small skulls
Slender bodies
Ape-like shoulders
The interesting facts about Homo Naledi include:
None of the fossils bear any marks that could suggest that the individuals were killed or that their bodies were scavenged.
There was no evidence that indicated that the bodies were carried into the chamber by anything other than their fellow hominines.
Archaeological evidence also suggests that they didn’t all attend the chamber at the same time.
And out of more than 1,550 fossil elements unearthed in the chamber, only a handful belong to animals (such as mice and birds) other than hominines.
APPLY
According to the finding highlighted in the Homo Naledi could be our common ancestor, therefore this this suggest that it could had human characteristics both physical and mental as well as similar behavioral characteristics.
The Dinaledi chamber could have been used as a burial ground where the newfound species could have performed burial rituals since none of the fossils had mark nor did they attend the chamber at the same time.
ASSESS
Research was intensively and thoroughly conducted and the information was extracted from good sources.
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