The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

Researchers have uncovered the earliest evidence of an adult cremation in Africa, dating back 9,500 years, revealing complex ...

About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base ...

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

A 9,500-year-old burial in Malawi is identified as the world’s oldest adult cremation, offering insight into early African ...

The commercialization of self-care has created a distance between people and authentic healing traditions. Yet within African and Caribbean cultures lie centuries-old practices that offer profound ...

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

The recent unearthing of ancient African beads has shed new light on the extensive trading systems that existed some 4,000 years ago. These discoveries have expanded our knowledge of international ...

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

A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson has documented something archaeologists have long struggled to find in ...

An international team of researchers, co-led by Yale University paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson, has documented the ...