# eLife editors and reviewers 2025: eLife Assessment and public reviews (version of record): Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi

> eLife editors and reviewers, 2025. 8 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The state of expert review at the end of the eLife process; used for the…

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# eLife Assessment and public reviews (version of record): Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi

eLife editors and reviewers, 2025. _eLife_.

The editors' assessment of the final version rates the claim's significance "landmark" if true and records a split on the strength of evidence: one reviewer finds it "convincing", another "incomplete", chiefly because how the hominins got into the chamber is not known. The editors add that the authors lean on precedent from their own earlier papers and that any study has to rest on its own merit. Two public reviews are attached.

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## What it's used for here

The state of expert review at the end of the eLife process; used for the split verdict.

## Cited by on this site 8 records

[One of the two final reviewers judged the evidence to convincingly show intentional burial.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/evidence/EVD0D38XC2A2BSB/one-of-the-two-final-reviewers-judged-the-evidence-to)

Evidence

EVD

[The revised burial paper is posted](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/events/EVT0D38X6PE338D/the-revised-burial-paper-is-posted)

EVT

[eLife publishes the version of record with a split assessment](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/events/EVT0D38X6Y83F00/elife-publishes-the-version-of-record-with-a-split)

EVT

[Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials)

The mystery article

MYS

[eLife](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/organisations/ORG0D38X4G47WRE/elife)

ORG

[By which route did the hominins, or the bodies, reach the Dinaledi Subsystem?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/homo-naledi-burials/questions/QST0D38X7NP2YAE/by-which-route-did-the-hominins-or-the-bodies-reach-the)

Question

QST

[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)

Question

QST

[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)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
eLife editors and reviewers (2025). eLife Assessment and public reviews (version of record): Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi. eLife. https://elifesciences.org/articles/89106/peer-reviews
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[Read it free at elifesciences.org](https://elifesciences.org/articles/89106/peer-reviews)

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**SRC** 0D38WWEA046H

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Report

Rights

CC-BY-4.0

Kept

27 Oct 2026

Checked

Against the published original

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