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Researchers in South Africa uncovered new Homo naledi remains deep inside a hidden cave system. The mysterious species may have intentionally buried their dead despite having much smaller brains than modern humans — challenging everything we thought about human evolution.
#AncientMystery #HumanOrigins #Archaeology #LostHistory #HomoNaledi
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/new-stash-mysterious-homo-naledi-bones-shows-they-coexisted-homo-021384

Researchers in South Africa uncovered new Homo naledi remains deep inside a hidden cave system. The mysterious species may have intentionally buried their dead despite having much smaller brains than modern humans — challenging everything we thought about human evolution.
#AncientMystery #HumanOrigins #Archaeology #LostHistory #HomoNaledi
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/new-stash-mysterious-homo-naledi-bones-shows-they-coexisted-homo-021384

Researchers in South Africa uncovered new Homo naledi remains deep inside a hidden cave system. The mysterious species may have intentionally buried their dead despite having much smaller brains than modern humans — challenging everything we thought about human evolution.
#AncientMystery #HumanOrigins #Archaeology #LostHistory #HomoNaledi
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/new-stash-mysterious-homo-naledi-bones-shows-they-coexisted-homo-021384

Researchers in South Africa uncovered new Homo naledi remains deep inside a hidden cave system. The mysterious species may have intentionally buried their dead despite having much smaller brains than modern humans — challenging everything we thought about human evolution.
#AncientMystery #HumanOrigins #Archaeology #LostHistory #HomoNaledi
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/new-stash-mysterious-homo-naledi-bones-shows-they-coexisted-homo-021384

Researchers in South Africa uncovered new Homo naledi remains deep inside a hidden cave system. The mysterious species may have intentionally buried their dead despite having much smaller brains than modern humans — challenging everything we thought about human evolution.
#AncientMystery #HumanOrigins #Archaeology #LostHistory #HomoNaledi
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/new-stash-mysterious-homo-naledi-bones-shows-they-coexisted-homo-021384

Evidence shows Homo naledi deliberately buried their dead

Deep inside the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, researchers have discovered what is possibly the oldest known evidence of deliberate burial by a non-human species of early hominin. The researchers, publishing in eLife, are studying Homo naledi, a small-brained species that lived more than 240,000 years ago...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/09/homo-naledi-deliberately-buried-their-dead/

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#archaeology #archeology #homonaledi #anthropology

Wie kann ein winziger Schädel unsere Sicht auf die Evolution verändern?
15 Individuen des Homo Naledi, mit einem Gehirn so groß wie eine Orange, geben der Forschung Rätsel auf. Ihre Bestattungen verändern unser Bild vom frühen Menschen:
👉 https://www.miss-jones.de/2022/05/06/homo-naledi-die-geschichte-einer-archaeologischen-sensation/
#Archäologie #Evolution #RisingStarHöhle #HomoNaledi #Menschheitsgeschichte #Forschung #Wissenschaft

Die #Handknochen eines Homo Naledi
(©Wits University).

Auf den ersten Blick sehen diese #Hände unseren sehr ähnlich, auf den zweiten sind die #Finger kurz, zierlich und irgendwie rund. Der #HomoNaledi war uns sehr ähnlich, aber doch ganz anders. Dass er entdeckt wurde, war bereits ein spannendes Abenteuer. Deshalb möchte ich euch die ganze #Geschichte erzählen:

https://buff.ly/3Kh44bJ

The Oldest Known Burial Site in The World Wasn't Created by Our Species : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-oldest-known-burial-site-in-the-world-wasnt-created-by-our-species

#Archeology
#BurialSite
#Prehistoric
#Paleontology
#SouthAfrica
#Paleoanthropology
#HomoSapiens
#HomoNaledi
#Anthropologist

Streit um den Homo naledi. Wie intelligent war der Frühmensch aus der Rising-Star-Höhle wirklich? #Homonaledi #RisingStarCave #Fruehmensch #Menschheitsgeschichte #Evolution
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/streit-um-den-homo-naledi/

Streit um den Homo naledi. Wie intelligent war der Frühmensch aus der Rising-Star-Höhle wirklich? #Homonaledi #RisingStarCave #Fruehmensch #Menschheitsgeschichte #Evolution
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/streit-um-den-homo-naledi/

Streit um den Homo naledi. Wie intelligent war der Frühmensch aus der Rising-Star-Höhle wirklich? #Homonaledi #RisingStarCave #Fruehmensch #Menschheitsgeschichte #Evolution
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/streit-um-den-homo-naledi/

Streit um den Homo naledi. Wie intelligent war der Frühmensch aus der Rising-Star-Höhle wirklich? #Homonaledi #RisingStarCave #Fruehmensch #Menschheitsgeschichte #Evolution
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/streit-um-den-homo-naledi/

Streit um den Homo naledi. Wie intelligent war der Frühmensch aus der Rising-Star-Höhle wirklich? #Homonaledi #RisingStarCave #Fruehmensch #Menschheitsgeschichte #Evolution
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/streit-um-den-homo-naledi/

Darf man unersetzliche Fossilien in All schicken? Streit um Mitnahme von menschlichen Fossilien bei suborbitalem Virgin-Galactic-Flug. #Fossilien #VirginGalactic #Australopithecus #Homonaledi #Menschheitsgeschichte #Vormensch #Menschenknochen
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/darf-man-unersetzliche-fossilien-in-all-schicken/

If you like reading about prehistory and want some recent recommendations for this genre, here’s a short thread about two books on the subject that I recently enjoyed.

#Neanderthal #Prehistory #AmReading #HomoSapiens #Archeology #Paleontology #Anthropology #Evolution #Hominids #HomoNaledi #BooksOfMastodon #Bookstodon #Biology #Denali

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Watching a documentary about the Denali cave excavation in South Africa. Where they discovered, amazingly, an unknown member of our family tree - Homo Naledi. The story is fascinating :-)

On Netflix: "Unknown: Cave of Bones"

Recalls to mind my childhood: the whole family, watching b+w Nat. Geo. documentaries on Richard Leaky and his family's archeological expeditions. #goodTimes

#science #education #homoNaledi #archeology #paleontology #caving

Just watching 'Unknown: Cave of Bones' on Netflix.

The #HomoNaledi

Fascinating!!

The #homonaledi papers might be the first high-profile test of #eLife new model of publishing reviewed preprints.

eLife reviewed the preprint and assessed it as follows: "... would be a landmark finding. However, the evidence for these claims is considered inadequate..."

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89106

At the same time, the Daily Princetonian reports that the "groundbreaking discoveries" have been "accepted" for publication.

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/07/princeton-ancient-human-relatives-buried-in-south-africa-national-geographic-anthropology-professor

"Homo Naledi Burial? A Public Peer Review of the Evidence"

This is an in-depth critique of the recently presented evidence for Homo naledi burial several hundred thousand years ago

See it here: https://youtu.be/9iN9t393QQI

cc: @archaedons. #archaeology #Homonaledi

💀 #Homonaledi

"It is quite remarkable...
If... If the findings are well proven."

Arguments for and against publicly sharing hypotheses as soon as possible.
https://twitter.com/riveramichael/status/1667062184017539073

💀 Prima facie... it seems #Homonaledi made burials, marks, and fire too.

But taking things at first view is not the way of science

"I believe the extraordinary should be pursued but...
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
Carl Sagan

Endocast morphology of #Homonaledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa Ralph L Holloway et al

"Despite the small size of the Homo naledi endocasts, they share several aspects of structure in common with other species of Homo, not found in other hominins or great apes, notably in the organization of the inferior frontal and lateral orbital gyri"

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1720842115

“Decades ago, we thought Homo sapiens were the only ones who could figure out how to use fire, bury their dead or create art, said Chris Stringer, a human evolution expert at London's Natural History Museum who was not involved in the research.” #dna #ancientdna #homonaledi #neandertal #isogg #geneadons https://www.businessinsider.com/ancient-humans-had-brains-a-third-the-size-but-showed-complex-thinking-2023-6

#HomoNaledi were burying their #dead at least 100,000 years before #humans
Team discoverd H. naledi bodies deposited in fetal positions, indicating intentional #burials predating earliest known burials by #HomoSapiens by 100,000yr, suggesting brain size might not be definitive factor behind such complex behavior. Team also found crosshatched symbols engraved on the walls of the cave that could date as far back as 241,000–335,000 years, although testing is still ongoing.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/anthropologists-find-evidence-that-homo-naledi-buried-their-dead-used-symbols/

🧵 #Homonaledi
https://twitter.com/MDPetraglia/status/1665872648985780224

Original study 3:

A. Fuentes et al., #Burials and #engravings in a small-brained hominin, #HomoNaledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications, @biorxivpreprint prior peer review June 05, 2023. 🔓

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.01.543135v1

Original study 2:

L. R. Berger et al., 241,000 to 335,000 Years Old #RockEngravings Made by #HomoNaledi in the #RisingStar Cave system, South Africa, @biorxivpreprint prior peer review June 05, 2023. 🔓

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.01.543133v1

Original study 1:

L. R. Berger et al., Evidence for deliberate #burial of the dead by #HomoNaledi, @biorxivpreprint prior peer review June 05, 2023. 🔓

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.01.543127v1

Did (or did not) #HomoNaledi bury their dead - & create symbolic engravings to commemorate them … 240,000 years ago, as latest research from South Africa's #RisingStar cave & couple of new studies (preprint) suggest?

https://www.science.org/content/article/was-small-brained-human-relative-world-s-first-gravedigger-and-artist via @ScienceMagazine

👇 #HomoNaledi
"So many questions..."
https://twitter.com/ChrisStringer65/status/1665781353881714690

Happy #FossilFriday! Learn about Neo, the #HomoNaledi #skeleton from #RisingStar! https://www.newscientist.com/article/2130280-meet-neo-the-most-complete-skeleton-of-homo-naledi-ever-found/

#Paleoanthropology #Human #Fire #Naledi

New Video is out today! Learn all about the #Homonaledi child, #Leti! https://dsh.re/21fb5 #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology #HumanOrigins #Origins #Evolution #HumanEvolution

This #naledifire business seems pretty extraordinary. Any hot takes from people who know what they’re talking about?
#HomoNaledi #humanevolution #archaeology #paleoantropology

This #naledifire business seems pretty extraordinary. Any hot takes from people who know what they’re talking about?
#HomoNaledi #humanevolution #archaeology #paleoantropology

This #naledifire business seems pretty extraordinary. Any hot takes from people who know what they’re talking about?
#HomoNaledi #humanevolution #archaeology #paleoantropology

This #naledifire business seems pretty extraordinary. Any hot takes from people who know what they’re talking about?
#HomoNaledi #humanevolution #archaeology #paleoantropology

- #HomoNaledi discovered #fire at least 235k yrs ago

- #Explore the #RisingStar #cave #system

- New #antibiotic from #Neanderthal #DNA

- Study sheds doubt on #Clovis first #theory

- #PrisonersDilemma & #plants that #cooperate

- #JohnVonNeumann & #GameTheory

- #Complex tale of #human #migration to #SouthAmerica

- How #urban #enviroments impact #evolution

- #OhioValley's #IceAge #indigenous people

- 1 million yr old #HomoErectus in #China

These stories & more at:

https://flipboard.com/@curiouscurator/thinking-ape-v47ecmkez?from=share&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=curator_share

- #HomoNaledi discovered #fire at least 235k yrs ago

- #Explore the #RisingStar #cave #system

- New #antibiotic from #Neanderthal #DNA

- Study sheds doubt on #Clovis first #theory

- #PrisonersDilemma & #plants that #cooperate

- #JohnVonNeumann & #GameTheory

- #Complex tale of #human #migration to #SouthAmerica

- How #urban #enviroments impact #evolution

- #OhioValley's #IceAge #indigenous people

- 1 million yr old #HomoErectus in #China

These stories & more at:

https://flipboard.com/@curiouscurator/thinking-ape-v47ecmkez?from=share&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=curator_share

Anthropologists describe the first skeleton of a Homo naledi child - The excavation was a mixture of spelunking expedition and paleontology field trip yet provided enou... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1666248 #paleoanthropology #homininevolution #ancienthominins #dinaledichamber #humanancestors #humanevolution #anthropology #homonaledi #hominins #science