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Homo Naledi Fossil In Rising Star Cave Could Represent First Gender-Specific Burials By A Nonhuman Species

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have extracted and analyzed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential all-female burial site. The study, published in Cell, suggests that South Africa’s Rising Star Cave system may be the first known…

Gender-specific burial behavior in a non-human hominin species quietly demolishes the assumption that ritual mortuary complexity is uniquely modern — if Homo naledi organized death by category, symbolic cognition runs far deeper in the tree than the conse
Homo Naledi Fossil In Rising Star Cave Could Represent First Gender-Specific Burials By A Nonhuman Species
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