2024-09-02 16:33:03
Star Homo continue to make waves. This small hominin was discovered in 2013 in a South African cave by the team of paleoanthropologist Lee Berger. Did he bury his body in a cave? Did he write signs on their walls? Is he, with his brain the size of an orange, the one who developed spirituality, a symbol? This is what the American explorer, affiliated with the National Geographic Society, said.
It supports the controversial idea that an extinct relative of controversial status may have developed burial rituals two and fifty thousand years ago, well before the first burials attributed to our own species and to Neanderthals, based in around 120,000 years ago, in the Middle East. In a new preprint Posted on August 12he reiterates this comment, providing new analyzes intended to respond to the various objections that have been raised.
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