# Bodies were placed or left on the floor or in natural hollows and became covered as the sediment moved and…

> Still possible: Bodies were placed or left on the floor or in natural hollows and became covered as the sediment moved and reworked around them, without…

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Answer · Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims

# Bodies were placed or left on the floor or in natural hollows and became covered as the sediment moved and…

Bodies were placed or left on the floor or in natural hollows and became covered as the sediment moved and reworked around them, without digging.

**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

- No cut is found; the infill matches the surrounding Unit 3 breccia.
- Articulation is partial and mixed with displaced elements, as in bodies decaying in loose sediment.

## What would rule it out

- A demonstrated cut through older layers at a feature edge.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[Reviewers note articulated elements are commingled with disarticulated ones from the same or different…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38XD9C551J/reviewers-note-articulated-elements-are-commingled-with)

Suggestive

FOR

[The 2025 paper argues that decomposition on the floor or in a shallow depression is excluded by the spatial…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38XDH60756/the-2025-paper-argues-that-decomposition-on-the-floor-or-in)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Were the Hill Antechamber and Dinaledi features bodies placed in dug pits and deliberately covered?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/questions/QST0D38X7DW1XKH/were-the-hill-antechamber-and-dinaledi-features-bodies)

Open4 answers, none ahead

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Bodies were placed or left on the floor or in natural hollows and became covered as the sediment moved and… [Answer ANS0D38XD1J01GF]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D38XD1J01GF
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