Did Homo naledi bury their dead? Deep underground in a complex cave system in South Africa, scientists discovered something that may change what we think we know about the evolution of death rituals. Homo naledi seems to have brought their dead into these remote chambers of the Rising Star cave system and left them there, almost like some sort of burial funeral ceremony. This is a controversial idea, and many alternatives have been proposed, from flood waters washing the bones in, to dumping or

Located 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, the Rising Star cave system is a sprawling network of underground tunnels, chambers, and rivers. Here, explorers have uncovered over a thousand fossil elements determined to belong to a previously unknown species of hominin, Homo naledi. #ScienceChannel #SecretsintheJungle | Science Channel