Found a part of the skull and teeth that date back to almost 250 thousand years ago
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(LaPresse) The fossilized bone remains of a hominid child were discovered in a cave in South Africa by an international team of researchers. A part of the skull and some teeth of a specimen of Homo naledi have been found: a small that would have been between 4 and 6 years old, died almost 250,000 years ago. The remains were found in a remote place in the cave, which suggests that they were brought there on purpose, in what could be a tomb. “If this skull has been moved somewhere else up to that point it is a remarkable level of interaction with the dead,” said Professor Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand. Homo naledi is a species of hominid found in the Cave of the Rising Star, Cradle of Humanity, 50 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, for the first time in 2015. It dates back to the Middle Pleistocene, a period from 335,000 to 236,000 years ago.
November 5, 2021 – Updated November 5, 2021, 11:59 am
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