Fire, engravings, burial all bogus???

Let's talk about naledi . I'm sorry this blog has become a broken record over these questions, but I have been interested and excited about these hominin remains for years now. I don't want to just ignore the current state of things. Quick recap: The remarkable remains from the Dinaledi chamber were first published in 2015. Lee Berger's research team claimed they were members of genus Homo (our own genus) but that they were a species new to science. They called this newly discovered species Homo naledi , but the real excitement over these remains was their hypothesis that the bodies of these creatures had been intentionally placed there in the deep recesses of that cave. The evidence for that was basically lack of a credible alternative explanation. The chamber contained thousands of bones of the same species, all highly similar and placed over time. At the same time, other bones of African animals were generally lacking. The bones were also in partial articul