At the Hora 1 archaeological site in Malawi, the discovery of the remains of a massive fire and the presence of incinerated ...

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 ...

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

A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices.

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

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

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 ...

About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent natural landmark in northern Malawi, according to ...

Jan. 2 (UPI) --Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in Africa, ...