Hominid Death Trap | National Geographic

the hominids were getting picked off
left right and center but with the diva
it’s no evidence at a carnivore anything
to do with it so then it’s well what
could have happened nothing has modified
these things no carnivore no cut marks
know anything else it’s the breakage
patterns little secret here the boy has
two broken arms what we’re seeing our
bilateral breaks on the boy which are
happening just on the humerus and upon
and it would be like that and so the
breakages are very high towards the head
of the humerus and it’s a breakage on
both sides you might get one broken but
two is very unusual these bones were
broken when he was either alive or fish
fits very nicely with this you can see
these blade and even edges and that is
the result of fresh breakage the fact
that it’s happening on his four limbs is
a clear indicator that he was putting
his arms out to break the fall its
characteristic of a very long
hard-fought one of tens of meters not
just a few at the moment the cave in
which sediba was found is not a cave
it’s no longer acade it’s just little
hole in the ground but a couple of
million years ago when sediba was
roaming the landscape was probably quite
a deep cave which is incredibly
important in understanding how old his
fits together yeah that’s
that’s interview is very kind of strange
there must be an attractant there must
be something that’s drawing them to this
deathtrap the only thing in my mind if
it unifies all these animals to take
life or death risk is water we as modern
humans are so immune to what it is to go
without drinking if I put someone on a
30 meter tall pull that’s a hundred odd
feet with all the food that you need and
one glass of water at the base 48 hours
maybe 72 and I’d find them at the bottom
dead probably
cuz they would come down for that water