The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...
An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...
Several of the early bills already pitched for the 2026 Indiana General Assembly deal with mortality, and all from a ...
I write these words after far too many tears shed together with bereaved families—families placed in painful and often avoidable situations simply because the right conversations did not happen ...
The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.
Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper ...
Cremation is unusual in the archaeological record before the mid-Holocene, especially among hunter-gatherers. Pyres demand ...
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 ...
New evidence of cremation 9,500 years ago in south-central Africa challenges long-held notions about how hunter-gatherers ...
An international team of researchers, co-led by Yale University paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson, has documented the ...
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