Extraordinary new discoveries are suggesting, for the very first time, that archaic (non-Homo-sapiens) early human society was far more complex and advanced than previously thought.
New scientific evidence is now revealing that, some 300,000 years ago, a little-known and now long-extinct species of hominid - Homo naledi - developed what appears to have been a very complex form of communal organisation, involving extreme sex-based cultural segregation and very strong female gender identity.
