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Did Homo naledi dispose of their dead in the Rising Star Cave system?

Paul Pettitt, 2022. South African Journal of Science 118(11/12).

A review by a specialist in Palaeolithic mortuary behaviour that weighs the evidence for deliberate disposal at Rising Star against criteria from the later Pleistocene record of burial and caching.

MYS0D38X1T654CF · mystery · click to copyMHomo naledi and the Rising Star burial claimsArticledoi: 10.17159/sajs.2022/15140Checked against the original0

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An outside expert's framing of what would count as funerary behaviour.

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Pettitt, P. (2022). Did Homo naledi dispose of their dead in the Rising Star Cave system?. South African Journal of Science 118(11/12). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/15140
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