# Bodies were buried by gravity-driven slumping or collapse of sediment within the chamber.

> Still possible: Bodies were buried by gravity-driven slumping or collapse of sediment within the chamber.

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Answer · Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims

# Bodies were buried by gravity-driven slumping or collapse of sediment within the chamber.

Bodies were buried by gravity-driven slumping or collapse of sediment within the chamber.

**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

- Sediment fabric and bone orientation show downslope movement.
- Features sit on slopes or below sediment sources.

## What would rule it out

- Features on flat floors with no slope fabric and no downslope bone orientation.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[A 2023 reviewer faulted the first version for not weighing erosion and slumping.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38XE8M0A7P/a-2023-reviewer-faulted-the-first-version-for-not-weighing)

Speculative

FOR

[The 2025 paper argues the topography and sediment observations exclude slumping as the cause of rapid…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38XE0T64JF/the-2025-paper-argues-the-topography-and-sediment)

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 buried by gravity-driven slumping or collapse of sediment within the chamber. [Answer ANS0D38XDS00FH1]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D38XDS00FH1
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