Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...

Ancient African hunter-gatherers cremated a woman 9,500 years ago, revealing complex rituals and challenging assumptions ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

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The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 ...

Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper ...

Cremation is unusual in the archaeological record before the mid-Holocene, especially among hunter-gatherers. Pyres demand ...

A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson ...

Evidence suggests ancient hunter-gatherers performed the first ever African cremation of a female sometime around 9,500 years ...

Read more about the cremation of a mysterious women 9,500 years ago, telling a more complex story of how hunter-gatherers ...

A 9,500-year-old burial in Malawi is identified as the world’s oldest adult cremation, offering insight into early African ...