# Bodies or bones reached the chambers through openings now closed, by falls, sediment movement or remains…

> Still possible: Bodies or bones reached the chambers through openings now closed, by falls, sediment movement or remains moving down through the system.

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Answer · Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims

# Bodies or bones reached the chambers through openings now closed, by falls, sediment movement or remains…

Bodies or bones reached the chambers through openings now closed, by falls, sediment movement or remains moving down through the system.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Flowstone and sediment dating show an opening connected to the chambers during deposition.
- Some non-hominin animals arrive by the same route.

## What would rule it out

- A complete flowstone chronology showing no open connection to the surface other than the present route during 236-335 ka.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[The flowstone chronology shows passages in the system opened and closed over time; a Postbox opening would…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38XAKE2R8E/the-flowstone-chronology-shows-passages-in-the-system-opened)

Supported

FOR

[The near-absence of other animals is hard to square with a natural trap open to the surface.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38XAV86H0R/the-near-absence-of-other-animals-is-hard-to-square-with-a)

Supported

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). Bodies or bones reached the chambers through openings now closed, by falls, sediment movement or remains… [Answer ANS0D38XABM51A8]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D38XABM51A8
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