Rising Star Cave,  Dinaledi Chamber  South Africa Go to Data Dashboard
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erectus;
Incredible fossil find with multiple individuals. Authors call it Homo naledi, but professional paleoanthropologists place it in Homo erectus, as does this author.
Burial and morturary activity? Are you kidding? Fire is nothing but total storytelling.
Nice fossils. Too bad the got so messed up by the cave explorers, excavators, and interpreters.
Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homofrom the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa