Homo Naledi, an extinct species of small-bodied hominins, may have intentionally buried their dead over 240,000 years ago.

Researchers say remains of at least 15 individuals in the Rising Star cave were deliberately placed and quickly covered by sediments, countering claims of accidental deposition.

Anthropologist Lee Berger and his team at the University of the Witwatersrand, working within the Rising Star cave system in ...

Mark Thiessan/National Geographic Bigger brains may not equate to higher intelligence after all, according to a remarkable discovery about an early hominin. Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the ...

After a decade of back-and-forth with skeptics, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team are not going to let their ...

Deep in the Rising Star Cave system lies a mystery of paleoanthropology. Deep in the Rising Star Cave system lies a mystery of paleoanthropology: a chamber filled with the bones of Homo naledi. How ...