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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.
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Discovery of a 9,500-year-old funeral pyre
At the Hora 1 archaeological site in Malawi, the discovery of the remains of a massive fire and the presence of incinerated ...
A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson has documented something archaeologists have long struggled to find in ...
The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.
Malawi offers rare insight into rituals of ancient African hunter-gatherer groups ...
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Oldest cremation pyre found in Africa rewrites our understanding of hunter-gatherer ritual behavior
How humans deal with death and the rituals we build around it are a crucial part of our identity. Burial practices may stretch back hundreds of thousands of years, emerging soon after our ancestors ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mount Hora rises above the plains of northern Malawi. - Jacob Davis Burned bone fragments found in northern Malawi have revealed ...
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