Study: Small-brained hominins used fire, engraved tools and cave walls, and buried their dead

Homo naledi is an extinct species of archaic human that lived in southern Africa about 250,000 to 300,000 years ago. For reference, 300,000 years ago is about when our species, Homo sapiens, is believed to have first appeared.

Homo naledi was only discovered by paleontologists in 2013, with the species' fossilized remains found in a deep and complex cave system known as Rising Star. — Read the rest