{"id":191482,"date":"2024-06-19T20:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-oldest-known-burial-site-in-the-world-wasnt-created-by-our-species"},"modified":"2024-06-19T20:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:27:04","slug":"the-oldest-known-burial-site-in-the-world-wasnt-created-by-our-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-oldest-known-burial-site-in-the-world-wasnt-created-by-our-species","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest Known Burial Site in The World Wasn\u2019t Created by Our Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-oldest-known-burial-site-in-the-world-wasnt-created-by-our-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paleontologists in South Africa said they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Led by renowned paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, researchers said in 2023 they had discovered several specimens of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homo_naledi\"><em>Homo naledi<\/em><\/a> \u2013 a tree-climbing, Stone Age hominid \u2013 buried about 30 meters (100 feet) underground in a cave system within the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO world heritage site near Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the most ancient interments yet recorded in the hominin record, earlier than evidence of <em>Homo sapiens<\/em> interments by at least 100,000 years,\u201d the scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/reviewed-preprints\/89106\">wrote<\/a> in a series of preprint papers published in <em>eLife<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paleontologists in South Africa said they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behavior. Led by renowned paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, researchers said in 2023 they had discovered several specimens of Homo naledi \u2013 a tree-climbing, Stone Age hominid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}