• Immature hominin from the Rising Star Cave

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    Immature Hominin Craniodental Remains From a New Locality in the
    Rising Star Cave System, South Africa.

    Abstract

    Homo naledi is known from the Rising Star cave system, South Africa,
    where its remains have previously been reported from two localities:
    the Dinaledi Chamber (U.W. 101) and Lesedi Chamber (U.W. 102).
    Continued exploration of the cave system has expanded our knowledge of
    the Dinaledi Chamber and its surrounding passageways (the Dinaledi
    Subsystem), leading to the discovery of new fossil localities. This
    paper discusses the fossil assemblage from the locality designated
    U.W. 110. This locality is within a narrow fissure of the Dinaledi
    Subsystem approximately 12 meters southwest of the 2013–2014
    excavation. Fossil remains recovered from this locality include six
    hominin teeth and 28 cranial fragments, all consistent with a single
    immature hominin individual. The dental morphology of the new
    specimens supports attribution to H. naledi. This is the first
    immature individual of H. naledi to preserve morphological details of
    the calvaria in association with dental evidence. This partial skull
    provides information about the maturation of H. naledi and will be
    important in reconstructing the developmental sequence of immature
    remains from other H. naledi occurrences. This is the third locality
    described with H. naledi material in the Rising Star cave system and
    represents a depositional situation that resembles the Lesedi Chamber
    in some respects.

    Open access:
    https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/64

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