The problem with the rock art at Rising Star Cave is that it’s undated. To imply any link with Homo naledi requires firm dates. This could be achieved through using dating techniques on ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Berger said he was also disappointed with the title of the commentary — "No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art" because "it is the interpretation ...

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 ...

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 of the Rising Star Cave in South Africa where H.

They think ancient humans purposefully put the rock art next to the dinosaurs' prints ... made by a Neanderthal A 'landmark finding': Homo naledi buried their dead 250,000 years ago, according ...

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 form of deeply impressed cross ...

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 ...