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 what is now northern Malawi, ...

Read more about the cremation of a mysterious woman 9,500 years ago, which tells a more complex story of how hunter-gatherers treated their dead. How humans deal with death and the rituals we build ...

Archaeologists in southwestern France have uncovered a Roman cremation site so lavish that it forces a rethink of how wealth, status, and memory were displayed on the fringes of the empire. At the ...

Burned bone fragments found in northern Malawi have revealed the oldest cremation pyre ever found in Africa — and unearthed new mysteries that may be hard to solve. By analyzing the bones and pyre ...

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 ...