Homo naledi infant skull discovery suggests they buried their dead

The first partial skull of a Homo naledi child has been found in the remote depths of the Rising Star cave in South Africa. The bone fragments and teeth belong to a child that died almost 250,000 years ago, when it was approximately 4–6 years old. Palæoanthropologists have named the child Leti after the Setswana word letimela, meaning ‘the lost one’. The remains were found on a ledge in a tiny 20-by-80 centimetre passage — suggesting, that the skull was placed there deliberately, as a form of funerary practice.