Mysterious species buried their dead and carved symbols 100,000 years before humans

Not saying it was aliens…

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To be fair how many people do you know that understand what an octothorp is?

Our known world history taught by professors is incomplete. It’s very fascinating. Civilizations lived longer before we thought.

Why does every single ancient culture have a flood story?

Ah-ha! Someone else has been watching the Why Files!

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the research team has discovered the remains of Homo naledi adults and children that were laid to rest in the fetal position within cave depressions and covered with soil. The burials are older than any known Homo sapiens burials by at least 100,000 years.

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The cave system includes deadly steep drops and tiny passageways like Superman’s Crawl, a tunnel measuring 131 feet (40 meters) long and 9.8 inches (25 centimeters) across, requiring the researchers to belly crawl their way through,

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Why do we assume they we buried, maybe the frickers were trapped and died there?


ETA

Artists interpretation of event.

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Why do we assume they we buried, maybe the frickers were trapped and died there?

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Had a similar thought when they talked about everyone in a fetal position.

The "hashtag-like cross-hatchings and other geometric shapes" could have been a body count for those trapped.

Quotes from the other side.

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The research purports to have evidence Homo naledi undertook deliberate burial of their dead – a major claim. So far, the earliest secure evidence for burial in Africa comes from the Panga ya Saidi cave site in eastern Kenya, excavated by our team and dated to 78,000 years ago. This burial of a Homo sapiens child meets rigorous criteria agreed upon by the scientific community for identifying intentional human burial. The aim of the criteria is to help differentiate burial from other practices and phenomena that could lead to the depositing of human remains. These include, for example, the natural accumulation of skeletal parts in a predator’s cavern, or the kind of carrying and protecting of dead bodies observed among cognitively advanced non-human species such as gorillas and chimpanzees.

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The site’s researchers claim to have evidence for three intentional burials. However, not one of the burials provides compelling evidence of a deliberately excavated pit. Indeed, the shallow cavities may not be dug pits at all, but natural depressions where the bodies accumulated and were later disturbed by trampling, or partial cave collapse. The alleged burials also fail to meet another fundamental criteria for deliberate burials: anatomical alignment of the body and articulation of skeletal remains. In a deliberate burial, the body is generally intact and any minimal displacement can be explained by decomposition. That’s because burial involves immediately covering the body with soil, which protects the anatomical integrity of the skeleton. Rising Star Cave so far hasn’t produced evidence for anything other than the general spatial association of some skeletal elements. At most, it provides evidence for the in-situ decomposition of particular body parts, such as an ankle, and partial hand and foot articulations. Moreover, confirming intentional burial in the past has required the presentation of human remains in an arrangement that can’t have been achieved by chance. However, the scattered distribution of the remains at Rising Star prevents reconstruction of their original positions. Other claimed evidence for funerary behaviour is equally uncompelling. A stone artefact supposedly included in the burial as a “grave good” is said to have scratches and edge serrations from use. But this so-called artefact’s shape suggests it may be natural. It’s still encased in sediment and has only been studied through synchrotron X-ray.

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An equally splashy claim made in one of the publications is that Homo naledi left rock art on the walls of Rising Star Cave.The problem with the rock art at Rising Star Cave is that it’s undated. To imply any link with Homo naledi requires firm dates. This could be achieved through using dating techniques on associated residues or natural deposits covering the art, or by studying materials from excavated and dated archaeological layers that can be linked to the art (for instance, if they contain engraving tools or engraved rock fall fragments).

In the absence of dating, it’s simply spurious to claim the engravings were made by Homo naledi, rather than by another species (and potentially at a much later date).

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The cave system includes deadly steep drops and tiny passageways like Superman’s Crawl, a tunnel measuring 131 feet (40 meters) long and 9.8 inches (25 centimeters) across,

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No way. My head won't get through that!

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Quotes from the other side.

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Give both "sides" aka money grubbing researchers each some money, that is all it is about. Let them play in the dirt a few more years and make mudpies. fricking academics are second only to PI attorneys on the scale of useless shite.