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Deliberate body disposal by hominins in the Dinaledi Chamber, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa?
Aurore Val, 2016. Journal of Human Evolution 96: 145-148.
Argues that the 2015 taphonomic data do not exclude natural accumulation, including bodies decomposing elsewhere and remains moving into the chamber with sediment, and that deliberate disposal was not demonstrated.
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The first published challenge to the deliberate-disposal reading.
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Val, A. (2016). Deliberate body disposal by hominins in the Dinaledi Chamber, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa?. Journal of Human Evolution 96: 145-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.02.004
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Val, Aurore. “Deliberate body disposal by hominins in the Dinaledi Chamber, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa?.” Journal of Human Evolution 96: 145-148 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.02.004.