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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 ...
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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.
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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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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavators standing at the depth of the pyre at the Hora 1 site in northern Malawi. Photo by Jessica Thompson/The Conversation Jan ...
The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.
Cremation is unusual in the archaeological record before the mid-Holocene, especially among hunter-gatherers. Pyres demand immense communal effort: fuel, labor, and sustained fire. Yet here, beneath ...
Burial payment assistance may be available to pay for burial, cremation, or costs associated with donation of a body to a medical school. An application for burial assistance must be submitted no ...
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