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

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

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 ...

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

In an ancient rock shelter in the heart of Malawi, archaeologists have found the world's oldest evidence of a funeral pyre ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s earliest intentional cremation of an adult human known till date in Malawi, a ...

New evidence of cremation 9,500 years ago in south-central Africa challenges long-held notions about how hunter-gatherers ...

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New York is the latest state to give residents the option of composting their deceased loved ones instead of a standard burial or cremation. The practice, sometimes called “natural organic reduction,” ...