Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience research and mental health treatment.

And some engraved areas gleam with a residue that may be the result of the rock being repeatedly touched. If H. naledi, with its small brain, was burying its dead, using fire as a light source and ...

Did Homo naledi make rock art? An equally splashy claim made in one of the publications is that Homo naledi left rock art on the walls of Rising Star Cave. The report describes engravings in the ...

The much-publicised claim that a species of small-brained ancient human buried its dead and produced rock art is completely unfounded, according to a group of researchers. “The evidence for ...

More specifically, the study authors explain that H. naledi’s hands appear well adapted to performing “crimp grips”, which are often used by rock climbers. Such a skill makes sense, given the layout ...

A new study casts doubt on claims that Homo naledi, a small-brained hominin dating to between 335-241,000 years ago, deliberately buried their dead and produced rock art in Rising Star Cave ...

An Homo naledi group carry one of their dead into ... In a third paper, Berger and his colleagues synthesize their burial and rock-art data to challenge another long-held assumption: that bigger ...

An extinct human relative known as Homo naledi were burying their dead and carving cave art into rock walls some 100,000 years before modern man decided he invented those practices, three new ...

The geo picks were out almost as soon as the Homo naledi fossils were unearthed in ... used stone tools and made rock art. After a “high-impact” journal — apparently Nature — stonewalled ...

Within one of the graves is a tool-shaped rock, buried next to the hand of a Homo naledi adult. Within a passage above the burials, in an antechamber, is a wall covered with rock engravings.

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