Cave of Bones

By: Lee Berger, John Hawks

Narrated by: Lee Berger

In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. The lead researcher on the site, still Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid—discoveries that stand to alter our fundamental understanding of what makes us human. So what does it all mean? Join Berger on the adventure of a lifetime as he explores the Rising Star cave system and begins the complicated process of explaining these extraordinary finds—finds that force a rethinking of human evolution, and discoveries that Berger calls "the Rosetta stone of the human mind."

©2023 Lee Berger and John Hawks (P)2023 National Geographic

excellent

very informative, great narration, very interesting, worthy of a registered or two. insightful, entertaining, excellent

informative and exciting

fascinating narrative of a new homo sapian branch I didn't know existed looking forward to the next instalment!

An Amazing Story

An amazing story of a dramatic paleoarcheology find that dramatically changes our understanding of evolution and what it means to be human. Riveting story that is performed perfectly by the author

A cliffhanger in more ways than one

I had to stop listening to this at night because I wanted to hear what happened so didn't get enough sleep. The impact technology, geology, archeology, genetics, etc., have had on what we are discovering about how we got to where we are now is fascinating.

Great story

Well written, digestible information, entertaining. I couldn’t ask for anything more! I’m going to purchase the hard copy just so I can have it in my physical library!