Did Small-Brained Homo naledi Bury Their Dead 250,000 Years Ago?
For decades, we’ve largely considered intentional burial – the careful placement of the dead – a hallmark of behaviour associated with larger-brained hominins like Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. It implies complex thought, perhaps grief, ritual, or a concept of an afterlife. But groundbreaking, albeit debated, research from the depths of a South…