Australopithecus Sediba Discovery

Within the field of archeology itself, it is often a spectacular event to find only a small piece of bone from our miraculous ancestors. We are able to learn so much about our past through these small yet very influential discoveries that have happened ever the last 100 years. However, as it was stated the finding of Australopithecus sediba has been one of the most important discoveries because of what we were able to learn and are still learning from it. It helped bridge some of the misunderstanding we had and also helped to create more mystery about where we came from and what our ancestors were really like. The finding of Australopithecus sediba is not something that simple happened over night but really started to begin in 1997 when Lee
He simply told them to go look around and see what they could find and didn’t think much after that. His son Mathew within less than an hour found a fossil by accident. The boy simply tripped over it when he was running with his dog and then Hollard at his father to come take a look. To his father’s surprise this was not a fossil that they typically find and was something his father had not seen before. Within the rock that he tripped over was a clavicle and jaw bones of an early hominid and was actually something that no one had ever seen before. In September, they went back out again and found numerous more bones in a pit only a couple meters from where the first bone was
The reason this may be is because Lee Berger allowed everyone to study it instead of keeping it all to himself like archeologists in the past. This gave people the ability to pitch in their understandings of Australopithecus sediba and allowed everyone to have the ability to study and infer from those findings. Making Australopithecus sediba one of the most extensively studied early hominin species because of Berger’s gracious ability to let everyone see it.
So as one can infer from what we have learned our ancestors have been evolving, branching, and reconstructing themselves since the beginning. Our relationship with them can been seen from our related anatomy, brain structure, as well as genetics. Since Australopithecus sediba the brain size, body structure, and culture has been growing to what we possibly see today. Though so much is unknown about our early ancestors it is clear that the relationship with these hominids does in fact have a relationship with what we are