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Could this be the oldest known human burial? #archaeology


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·Nov 10, 2024

So this is the Superman crawl. It's an opening less than 10 inches wide where you literally have to make a Superman pose just to make it through. If you follow the cape through the Dragon's Back chamber and then go down to shoot, yeah, that's you.

Superman crawl is easy compared to the shoot.

That's Dr. Lee Berger, who led the expedition. Hello!

So after the shoot, what you find could be the oldest known human burial by at least a hundred thousand years. But the thing is, these bodies are from a different human species. Over the last 10 years, I've discovered remains, and some of them possibly buried, of a new human species that they named Homo naledi, along with some carvings that they might have made.

So we've seen some evidence that shows that Neanderthals practiced art and some sort of burial ritual. But our brain's a pretty similar size, so even though it's cool, it's not too surprising.

But what makes the lady extra weird is the brain's about a third the size of a human, like the size of a chimps. Now, we've seen chimps mourn their family members through vocalizations or grooming or even revisiting their bodies. But imagine seeing a chimpanzee that buries their dead. Maybe you're not as unique as we think.

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