The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...
The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 ...
A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson ...
Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...
Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper ...
About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base ...
Malawi offers rare insight into rituals of ancient African hunter-gatherer groups ...
An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...
Ancient African hunter-gatherers cremated a woman 9,500 years ago, revealing complex rituals and challenging assumptions ...
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 ...