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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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Oldest Cremation Pyre Found in Africa Rewrites Our Understanding of Hunter-Gatherer Ritual Behavior
Read more about the cremation of a mysterious woman 9,500 years ago, which tells a more complex story of how hunter-gatherers ...
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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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 ...
A scientific paper, published in the journal Science Advances, describes a spectacular event that happened about 9,500 years ...
A new study published in the journal Science Advances provides the earliest evidence of intentional cremation in Africa. It describes the world’s oldest known in situ cremation pyre containing the ...
An international team of researchers, co-led by Yale University paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson, has documented the ...
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