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This 9,500-Year-Old Burial Is The Oldest Cremation Ever Found in Africa and It Involved an Enormous Fire Seen For Miles

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

Oldest known cremation pyre in Africa reveals mysterious woman who lived 9,500 years ago

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

Ritual cremations may have occurred in Africa 9,500 years ago, researchers say

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

Oldest Cremation Pyre Ever Found Reveals Sophisticated Rituals

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 ...

Cremation pyre in Africa thought to be world’s oldest containing adult remains

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