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Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger claims that the oldest burial site in the world, dating back to some 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, is in South

Jerry Banks pleaded guilty to three charges, including murder for hire, conspiracy to kidnap with death resulting.

An extinct human relative known as Homo naledi were burying their dead and carving cave art into rock walls some 100,000 years before modern man decided he invented those practices, three new studies claim.

(CNN) — Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans. The brains belonging to the extinct species, known as Homo naledi, were around one-third the size of a modern human brain. The […]

Princeton anthropologist Agustin Fuentes was part of a team exploring a cave system in South Africa that found evidence of intentional burials and symbols at the graves of an extinct species of ancient human relatives that could change our understanding of human evolution.