# Living H. naledi carried or dragged their dead into the subsystem.

> Most likely: Living H. naledi carried or dragged their dead into the subsystem.

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Answer · Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims

# Living H. naledi carried or dragged their dead into the subsystem.

Living H. naledi carried or dragged their dead into the subsystem.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: three pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- No other agent (carnivore, water, gravity from a surface shaft) can deliver bodies to the chambers.
- Remains are concentrated where a route from the entrance would bring them, not spread as a natural trap spreads them.
- Some evidence of repeated use (remains of different ages and states of preservation).

## What would rule it out

- A dated opening above the chambers through which bodies could fall or be washed in during the time of deposition, or evidence that other animals accumulated with the hominins.

## Evidence 3 for · 1 against

[Infants to old adults are present, from at least 15 individuals in the first excavation alone.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38X8WR7S7H/infants-to-old-adults-are-present-from-at-least-15)

Established

FOR

[No carnivore marks, no water-sorting and almost no other large fauna in the Dinaledi assemblage.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38X8MY5SN2/no-carnivore-marks-no-water-sorting-and-almost-no-other)

Established

FOR

[Remains also occur in a second chamber (Lesedi) and in remote passages of the subsystem.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38X94J52NM/remains-also-occur-in-a-second-chamber-lesedi-and-in-remote)

Supported

FOR

[Skeletal-part profile resembles bodies that decayed in the open or in caves rather than buried ones.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38X9CC2X10/skeletal-part-profile-resembles-bodies-that-decayed-in-the)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[How did the remains of many Homo naledi individuals come to lie in the dark chambers of the Dinaledi Subsystem?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/questions/QST0D38X76261BP/how-did-the-remains-of-many-homo-naledi-individuals-come-to)

Most likelyLiving H. naledi carried or dragged their dead into the subsystem

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Living H. naledi carried or dragged their dead into the subsystem. [Answer ANS0D38X8D43WJ1]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D38X8D43WJ1
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