Evidence suggests ancient hunter-gatherers performed the first ever African cremation of a female sometime around 9,500 years ...
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9,500-year-old cremation site is challenging what we know about early human burial practices
The 9,500-year-old remains were discovered to be of a woman who was between 18 and 60 years old when she died. According to ...
An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...
A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about ...
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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 ...
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 ...
About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent natural landmark in northern Malawi, according to ...
Cremation is unusual in the archaeological record before the mid-Holocene, especially among hunter-gatherers. Pyres demand ...
The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.
Archaeologists say they've unexpectedly found a huge Stone Age cremation pyre in southern-central Africa. The discovery is helping them understand the history of cremation.
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