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

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

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

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

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

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 the study published in Science Advances, a large pyre was prepared for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists say they've unexpectedly found a huge Stone Age cremation pyre in southern-central Africa. The discovery is helping them understand the history of cremation.

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 ...