Archaeology with Flint Dibble | The Real Dirt on Homo naledi with Dr. Kim Foecke. Does geochemistry prove Homo naledi burial? @FlintDibble | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
#RealArchaeology A look at geochemical methods and best practices as it relates to the claims that Homo naledi buried their dead.
Chapters
3:31. Why critique the still-to-be-published paper on Homo naledi burial?
15:33. Is the sediment in the "burial pit" different from sediment outside?
33:45. Geological sampling and reporting: problems and best practices
41:29. Archaeology issues: replicability, interdisciplinary, peer-review
51:11. Public archaeology and archaeology in the media
For my earlier vides on Homo naledi see
Homo naledi burial? A public peer review of the evidence. youtube.com/watch?v=9iN9t393QQI&t=1s
The Homo naledi controversy! With Jamie Hodgkins and George Leader youtube.com/watch?v=tWavjXAg5Tw
The paper we are discussing is:
Foecke, K.K., A. Queffelec, and R. Pickering. 2024. "No Sedimentological Evidence for Deliberate Burial by Homo naledi – A Case Study Highlighting the Need for Best Practices in Geochemical Studies Within Archaeology and Paleoanthropology." Paleoanthropology. paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/25
The paper is a response to Berger, L. et al. 2023. "Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi." elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89106#tab-content
We also mentioned these other critiques of Berger et al.:
Torres et al. 2023. No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art. Journal of Human Evolution. sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248423001434
Pickering, R. and D. Kgotleng. 2024. Preprints, press releases and fossils in space: What is happening in South African human evolution research? South African Journal of Science. https://sajs.co.za/article/view/17473
Keywords: homo naledi, rising star cave, lee berger, hominid burial, paleolithic, paleoanthropology, kim foecke, archaeology, prehistory, human evolution, geoarchaeology, geology, chemistry, XRF, pXRF, XRD, X-Ray Fluorescence, X-Ray Diffraction, multivariate statistics, principal component analysis
#RealArchaeology A look at geochemical methods and best practices as it relates to the claims that Homo naledi buried their dead.
Chapters
3:31. Why critique the still-to-be-published paper on Homo naledi burial?
15:33. Is the sediment in the "burial pit" different from sediment outside?
33:45. Geological sampling and reporting: problems and best practices
41:29. Archaeology issues: replicability, interdisciplinary, peer-review
51:11. Public archaeology and archaeology in the media
For my earlier vides on Homo naledi see
Homo naledi burial? A public peer review of the evidence. youtube.com/watch?v=9iN9t393QQI&t=1s
The Homo naledi controversy! With Jamie Hodgkins and George Leader youtube.com/watch?v=tWavjXAg5Tw
The paper we are discussing is:
Foecke, K.K., A. Queffelec, and R. Pickering. 2024. "No Sedimentological Evidence for Deliberate Burial by Homo naledi – A Case Study Highlighting the Need for Best Practices in Geochemical Studies Within Archaeology and Paleoanthropology." Paleoanthropology. paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/25
The paper is a response to Berger, L. et al. 2023. "Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi." elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89106#tab-content
We also mentioned these other critiques of Berger et al.:
Torres et al. 2023. No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art. Journal of Human Evolution. sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248423001434
Pickering, R. and D. Kgotleng. 2024. Preprints, press releases and fossils in space: What is happening in South African human evolution research? South African Journal of Science. https://sajs.co.za/article/view/17473
Keywords: homo naledi, rising star cave, lee berger, hominid burial, paleolithic, paleoanthropology, kim foecke, archaeology, prehistory, human evolution, geoarchaeology, geology, chemistry, XRF, pXRF, XRD, X-Ray Fluorescence, X-Ray Diffraction, multivariate statistics, principal component analysis
