The newly discovered ancient interments date back at least 200,000 years.
fossils buried about 100 feet underground in this site's Rising Star cave system.–– is not only a life-changing adventure but what we’ve uncovered forces us to rethink a whole set of assumptions about hominins and human evolution,” said Fuentes, professor of anthropology at Princeton University, in anThe oval-shaped interments contained the remains of dozen of extinct hominin species, who were likely buried in “fetal positions.” The individuals were identified as adults and children .
However, the newly-identified specimens challenge the current understanding of human evolution as it had mainly been assumed that the development of larger brains enabled the performance of complex activities such as burying the dead.Despite their small brains, thesemay also have lit fires and etched geometrical symbols on cave walls. These identified engraved symbols could be anywhere between 241,000 and 335,000 years old.
“These recent findings suggest intentional burials, the use of symbols, and meaning-making activities by Homo naledi. It seems an inevitable conclusion that in combination they indicate that this small-brained species of ancient human relatives was performing complex practices related to death,” said Berger. “That would mean not only are humans not unique in the development of symbolic practices, but may not have even invented such behaviors.
The symbol inscription has also been reported in other human species, including Neanderthals and in earlyThe findings are yet to be peer-reviewed and will be published in the journal
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