Task 2

Task 2

The information fluency process is as follows

• Ask- Who/what is Homo Naledi?

                When was it discovered?

                 Who discovered it?

                 How old was the finding?

                 Why is the finding so significant?

                 What happened to the finding/where is it?

• Acquire- Google has become part of our daily digital lives.Reading books, be it from a library or online helps to feed ones knowledge, going to a museum to gain more knowledge on the species Homo Naledi.  

                      

• Analyze- In this stage i analyse the information that i already have and see which information should i use and which should i not.I will rearrange and organize the information.
• Apply- I will then practicaly apply the knowledge i have gained within the context of the original purpose.
• Assess- This is the final stage and i will revisit both the product and the process.

I have used this process to analyze and better understand the information required for the topic below.

 The discovery of a new species of a human ancestor was announced on the 10th of September 2015 at the Cradle of Humankind. The species was discovered by dr Lee Berger from Wits University with the help of national geographic and scientists from around the world.Homo Naledi was named after the rising star cave- "Naledi" means "star" in Sesotho. The bones were found in a chamber of the cave called Dinaledi, accessible only through a narrow chute, about 90 meters from the cave entrance. Homo Naledi looks like one of the most primitive members of our genus, but also has some surprisingly human-like features. Homo Naledi had a very tiny brain, about the size of an orange and a slender body, was about 1.5 meters tall and weighed about 45 kilograms.The hands of Homo Naledi suggest tool-using capabilities, with extremely curved fingers, they were more curved than almost any other species of early discovery, which demonstrates climbing capabilities. Roughly more than 60 cavers and scientists worked together to recover, what is now known as possibly the one of greatest archaeological discoveries of our time, the bones Homo Naledi through the 18-centimeter-wide cave opening. Homo Naledi was first discovered in 2013 by a team at the Rising-star cave.The species according to Dr Berger had extraordinary behavior, one that we as human beings thought we were unique about for so long, it disposed of the dead and buried them. Dr Berger and his team upon finding the remains came up with a rather controversial conclusion, that the place they found the bones in was a burial ground for Homo Naledi as no less than 1550 fossilized bones were found at the bottom of Dinaledi. Dr Berger and his team have not been able to date the fossils yet making it difficult to accurately estimate how long ago they lived on this earth.Homo Naledi is the closest archaeological discovery to man-kind and its origin.