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9,500-Year-Old Malawi Find Is Africa’s Earliest Cremation and Oldest Adult Pyre

Peer-reviewed analyses in Science Advances conclude the Hora 1 remains were burned on a constructed pyre requiring intensive communal labor.

Malawi Pyre Dating to 9,500 Years Ago Is Africa’s Earliest Intentional Cremation

Smoke-Dried Mummies in Southeast Asia May Be the World’s Oldest, Study Finds

Smoke-Dried Mummies Across Southeast Asia Rewrite Mummification’s Origins

Isotope Study Links 6,000-Year-Old Alsace ‘Victory’ Burials to Outsider Victims

Archaeologists Unearth 1,000-Year-Old Chancay Burial in Lima’s Puente Piedra

Archaeologists Examine 1,000-Year-Old Chancay Burial Found Under Lima Street

Incestuous ‘God-Kings’ Theory in Neolithic Ireland Disproved

New Orleans Jazz Funeral Honors 19 Black Individuals Repatriated From Germany