The skull of a small child belonging to a different human species has been found deep in a cave system in South Africa. They have been named 鈥淟eti鈥. Leti鈥檚 skull was found in a narrow fissure that is almost impossible to access. For that reason, the discoverers argue that the skull was placed there deliberately, as a form of funerary practice. They say it is evidence that hominins have been performing funerary rights for hundreds of thousands of years 鈥 even hominins with brains much smaller than ours.
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