And that's where we wentin those initial papers, with, you know,"ritualized disposal of...

[BERGER] And that's where we went
in those initial papers, with, you know,
"ritualized disposal of the dead." We put that evidence out there,
and it was strong evidence. But other scientists, they said,
"It's impossible, brain's too small." There were critics that would say that humans had taken them
and put them in there in some sort of human ritual,
like a pet cemetery. [CHUCKLING] [SIGHING] - And yet, there was a worry, you know.
- [MUSIC FADES OUT] I don't know if we'd made a mistake in putting forward a hypothesis
that might never be able to be tested, this ritualized disposal of the dead. What if it had just been
this giant bone bed? What if that's all we ever find? [OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]