The God Edition | Searching among the bones for Homo naledi’s soul – The Mail & Guardian

The God Edition | Searching among the bones for Homo naledi’s soul – The Mail & Guardian

Did Homo naledi have a soul? That may sound like a very strange question, but let me explain the context. It is now 10 years since the excavation of H naledi’s skeletal remains in the Cradle of Humankind near Krugersdorp.  About 1  500 fossilised bones, estimated at about a quarter of a million years old, were recovered from an almost inaccessible recess of the deep and convoluted Rising Star cave system. How the bones got there remains a myster…