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Major New Research Claims Smaller-Brained Homo Naledi Made Rock Art and Buried Their Dead, but the Evidence Is Lacking

On September 13, 2013, speleologists Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker descended deep into South Africa’s Rising Star Cave system and discovered the first evidence of an extraordinary assemblage of hominin fossils. To date, the remains of more than 15 individuals belonging to a previously unknown species of extinct human, dubbed Homo naledi, have been found ...

Troy Oakes

Homo naledi skulls.