New evidence from the Rising Star cave system suggests Homo naledi used fire deep underground, with soot-blackened ceilings, burnt animal bones, ash, and multiple hearths found far inside chambers ...

In 2013, deep inside South Africa’s Rising Star Cave system, over 1,500 fossil bones were discovered — representing at least 15 individuals of a previously unknown human species. Homo naledi lived ...

The fossils, discovered in the dark reaches of the Rising Star cave in South Africa, belong to a new species that arose at the dawn of the family that includes modern humans, the researchers say in a ...