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Ancient child grave was Africa s earliest funeral
BBC
7th May, 2021 10:55:31
A glimpse of human grief, at the loss of a child 78,000 years ago, has been revealed in the discovery of the oldest burial site in Africa.
The Middle Stone Age grave - of a three-year-old child - was found in a cave in Kenya.
In a paper in the journal Nature, the researchers who studied the fragile, ancient remains described how its head appeared to have been laid on a pillow.
Scientists have named the child Mtoto, meaning the kid in Swahili.
The international team of archaeologists carefully cast the entire grave in plaster in order to preserve the arrangement of surviving bone fragments. This enabled them to transport the body safely to a laboratory for detailed study.
Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
May 6 2021, 8:38 ET
THE grave of a three-year-old child who was buried around 78,000 year ago has been labelled as Africa’s ‘oldest human burial’.
The remains of the young child were found in a cave on the Kenyan coast and revealed “astonishingly preserved” deliberate bone arrangements.
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An artists impression of how the child was placed in the shallow graveCredit: Reuters
It s thought the child was buried in a certain position at the Panga ya Saidi cave for ritual reasons.
Researchers working on the project have published their findings in the journal Nature.
They think this is the earliest evidence of a ceremonial burial by modern humans in Africa.
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Africa s Oldest Human Grave Found, Toddler Buried With Pillow 78,000 Years Ago
A skeleton of a roughly 2.5 to 3.0-year-old toddler in a flexed position on a pillow dating to 78 thousand years ago was excavated at Panga ya Saidi in Africa.
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Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known human burial in Africa in southeast Kenya’s MSA layers of Panga ya Saidi (PYS), a cave site on the tropical upland coast. A skeleton of a roughly 2.5 to 3-year-old toddler in a flexed position on a pillow dating to 78 thousand years ago was excavated. While scientists argue that the human burials in the Middle East and Europe are some of the oldest, the African grave of the child is one of the earliest known across the continent, according to new research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The cave sediment and the bones helped scientists unveil the details of the evolution of the funerary practices in Homo sapiens.
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