# Robbins 2021: Providing context to the Homo naledi fossils: Constraints from flowstones on the age of sediment deposits in Rising Star Cave, South Africa

> Jessie L. Robbins, Paul H.G.M. Dirks, Eric M. Roberts et al., 2021. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The main source on how and when the…

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# Providing context to the Homo naledi fossils: Constraints from flowstones on the age of sediment deposits in Rising Star Cave, South Africa

Jessie L. Robbins, Paul H.G.M. Dirks, Eric M. Roberts et al., 2021. _Chemical Geology 567: 120108_.

A U-Th chronology of flowstones across the cave system that constrains when passages were open and when sediment entered the chambers, and discusses alternative openings such as the Postbox, which would shorten the route into the Dinaledi Subsystem.

**Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims** Articledoi: **[10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120108](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120108)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The main source on how and when the chambers could have been reached.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[Through another opening, such as the Postbox, that is now closed or impassable.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/answers/ANS0D38XF7W55VD/through-another-opening-such-as-the-postbox-that-is-now)

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[The flowstone chronology raises the Postbox as an alternative route that would cut 80 m from the approach.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38XFFP79A7/the-flowstone-chronology-raises-the-postbox-as-an)

Evidence

EVD

[The flowstone chronology shows passages in the system opened and closed over time; a Postbox opening would…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38XAKE2R8E/the-flowstone-chronology-shows-passages-in-the-system-opened)

Evidence

EVD

[Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials)

The mystery article

MYS

[By which route did the hominins, or the bodies, reach the Dinaledi Subsystem?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/questions/QST0D38X7NP2YAE/by-which-route-did-the-hominins-or-the-bodies-reach-the)

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## Cite it

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Robbins, J. L., Dirks, P. H., Roberts, E. M., Kramers, J. D., Makhubela, T. V., Hilbert-Wolf, H. L., Elliott, M., & Wiersma, J. P. (2021). Providing context to the Homo naledi fossils: Constraints from flowstones on the age of sediment deposits in Rising Star Cave, South Africa. Chemical Geology 567: 120108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120108
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120108)

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