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Jun 6, 2023 · Deep inside the Rising Star cave system, about 20 miles outside Johannesburg, a group of young scientists led by American paleoanthropologist Lee Berger claim to have found gravesites of...
- CBS News
- 5 min
Jun 5, 2023 · Until now, only humans were known to bury their dead, and the oldest known human grave dates back 78,000 years. Homo naledi lived much earlier than that. Dr. Makhubela said their fossils were at ...
Jun 10, 2023 · A team of explorers has uncovered evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls at least 100,000 years before modern humans. The intentional burials of H. naledi ...
Jun 5, 2023 · NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient human cousin may have buried its dead and carved symbols into cave walls, surprising findings for a creature with a small brain. Fossil remains of the species — named Homo naledi — were uncovered in underground caves in South Africa a decade ago.
- Maddie Burakoff
- mburakoff@ap.org
Jun 9, 2023 · A study claiming that human ancestors living between 240,000 and 500,000 years ago may have intentionally buried their dead, raises the question of when this behavior began.
- Elizabeth Yuko
Jun 5, 2023 · An extinct human species that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago may have deliberately buried its dead and carved meaningful ... discovered in the cave are concentrated in a single, hard-to ...
Jun 7, 2023 · The fossils of H. naledi, first discovered in South Africa in 2013, date to between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago. Meanwhile, the oldest known human burial site dates to around 78,000 years ago.
