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9,500-year-old cremation pyre of a hunter-gatherer woman is the oldest of its kind in the world
The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...
Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper ...
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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 ...
Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...
Malawi offers rare insight into rituals of ancient African hunter-gatherer groups ...
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 ...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will begin building the funeral pyre for late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died last month at the age of 88, next year, the government said on Monday, adding 8,000 people ...
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