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9,500-year-old cremation pyre of a hunter-gatherer woman is the oldest of its kind in the world
Hunter-gatherers cremated the headless body of a woman in a pyre around 9,500 years ago in what is now Malawi.
The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 ...
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Scientists discover Africa’s oldest cremation pyre revealing complex rituals from 9,500 years ago
A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson ...
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This 9,500-Year-Old Burial Is The Oldest Cremation Ever Found in Africa and It Involved an Enormous Fire Seen For Miles
An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...
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Africa’s oldest cremation site found, 9,500 years old
A 9,500-year-old funeral pyre uncovered in a rock shelter in northern Malawi is forcing archaeologists to rethink when and ...
About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base ...
The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...
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Africa's oldest-known cremation raises a historical mystery
The oldest known cremation found in Africa, dating from 9,500 years ago, raises a question: Why were the remains burned in ...
A Devon town is united in fear over the safety of chemicals released from an animal pyre. Local protest forced the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Maff) to scale down the number of ...
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