A thought just occurred to me about the presence of all those bodies in the cave. How did they get there? I don't mean why they are there, whether they were buried or died there. I mean how did they physically get there. The cavern where they were found is fairly deep in a cave system. Which means that it is dark in there. The excavation was well lighted by artificial light. When they got in there they didn't have led flashlights. Based on their physical structure they were probably before Homo Habilis, so that pushes them back anyhow a couple of million years. But they didn't get in there without some kind of light and torches seems the most probable, at least to me. So there are implications for when Homo first gained control of fire. As I recall the oldest confirmed use of fire was around 800,000 years ago.
Bill Gill
