The much-publicised declare {that a} species of small-brained historic human buried its useless and produced rock artwork is totally unfounded, in accordance with a gaggle of researchers.

“The proof for burial and rock artwork is non-existent,” says Michael Petraglia at Griffith College in Nathan, Australia.

Nonetheless, the researchers behind the unique declare say they’re laborious at work gathering extra proof to construct their case. Additionally they contend that their research are caught up in a wider debate over how scientific outcomes needs to be printed and critiqued.

The controversy…