Africa’s oldest cremation: 9,500-year-old pyre reveals Stone Age rituals in Malawi

A newly published study has uncovered the oldest known evidence of human cremation in Africa, extending Africa’s cremation record by several thousand years and overturning long-held views on the societal and ritualistic behavior of ancient hunter-gatherers...

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Africa’s oldest cremation: 9,500-year-old pyre reveals Stone Age rituals in Malawi

A newly published study has uncovered the oldest known evidence of human cremation in Africa, extending Africa’s cremation record by several thousand years and overturning long-held views on the societal and ritualistic behavior of ancient hunter-gatherers...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/africa-s-oldest-cremation-9500-year-old-pyre/

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A 4,000-year-old sheep may reveal how the Bronze Age plague spread across Eurasia

The plague moved through Europe during the medieval period with devastating speed, causing millions of deaths as fleas spread Yersinia pestis from rodents to humans. However, long before that catastrophe, a different plague circulated across Eurasia during the Bronze Age...

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A 4,000-year-old sheep may reveal how the Bronze Age plague spread across Eurasia

The plague moved through Europe during the medieval period with devastating speed, causing millions of deaths as fleas spread Yersinia pestis from rodents to humans. However, long before that catastrophe, a different plague circulated across Eurasia during the Bronze Age...

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9,000-year-old Bad Dürrenberg woman shaman burial reveals a lasting ritual legacy

Archaeologists have discovered more about one of Central Europe’s most astonishing prehistoric burials: a 9,000-year-old grave belonging to a Mesolithic woman from Bad Dürrenberg in Germany, who had long been thought to be a shaman...

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9,000-year-old Bad Dürrenberg woman shaman burial reveals a lasting ritual legacy

Archaeologists have discovered more about one of Central Europe’s most astonishing prehistoric burials: a 9,000-year-old grave belonging to a Mesolithic woman from Bad Dürrenberg in Germany, who had long been thought to be a shaman...

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Early humans ate processed plant foods long before farming, new study shows

Early humans were not the single-minded meat hunters often imagined in popular “Paleo” narratives. A new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Research argues that our ancestors were skilled at gathering, processing, and eating a wide range of plants long before the first farms appeared...

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Ancient DNA reveals West African ancestry in 7th-century skeletons from England

Archaeologists have unearthed surprising genetic evidence that two individuals buried at opposite ends of the south coast of England in the 7th century CE had recent West African ancestry. The findings, published in Antiquity, contradict centuries of traditional beliefs...

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