Although the oldest burned human remains date back to 40,000 years old at Lake Mungo, Australia, it lacks any signs of a pyre ...

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

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

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

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

A new study published in the journal Science Advances provides the earliest evidence of intentional cremation in Africa. It describes the world’s oldest known in situ cremation pyre containing the ...

Archaeologists discover human remains by pyre in recent excavation in Malawi, suggesting hunter gatherer societies attributed great importance to ritual funerals ...

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

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

Evidence suggests ancient hunter-gatherers performed the first ever African cremation of a female sometime around 9,500 years ago.

A multidisciplinary study in Science Advances documents a 9,500-year-old funerary pyre, revealing unexpected ritual complexity among past tropical hunter-gatherer communities. The study, published in ...