(CNN) — Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans. The brains belonging to the extinct species, known as Homo naledi, were around one-third the size of a modern human brain. The […]
Princeton anthropologist Agustin Fuentes was part of a team exploring a cave system in South Africa that found evidence of intentional burials and symbols at the graves of an extinct species of ancient human relatives that could change our understanding of human evolution.
Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans.