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9,500-year-old cremation pyre of a hunter-gatherer woman is the oldest of its kind in the world

Hunter-gatherers cremated the headless body of a woman in a pyre around 9,500 years ago in what is now Malawi.
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9,500-year-old cremation pyre found at base of Mount Hora is oldest in the world

At Mount Hora, archaeologists discovered the oldest human cremation in Africa and the oldest in situ adult pyre in the world. As stated in a study recently published in Science Advances, “globally, ...