Rising Star Cave is located in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site near Krugersdorp in South Africa. It became notable in October 2013 for the more than 1200 hominid fossil elements recovered and catalogued, ^[1] representing at least a dozen individuals. ^[2] Only 20 out of 206 bones in the human body were not found in the cave as of Summer, 2014.^[3] The exploration of the cave was unusual for the media interest it generated, for its real-time coverage in the social media such as Twitter and YouTube, and for the large number of international palaeontologists, anthropologists and archaeologists who converged on the site. The work was jointly sponsored by Witwatersrand University and the National Geographic Society, and though at its launch the project was geared to the recovery of a single skeleton, it soon became apparent that decades of work lay ahead.

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