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

A nearly 10,000-year-old pyre discovered in Africa has revealed the country’s oldest cremation. In a study published in the ...

Hunter-gatherers cremated the headless body of a woman in a pyre around 9,500 years ago in what is now Malawi.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Archaeologists discover human remains by pyre in recent excavation in Malawi, suggesting hunter gatherer societies attributed ...

Malawi offers rare insight into rituals of ancient African hunter-gatherer groups ...

About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base ...