A 9,500-year-old funeral pyre uncovered in a rock shelter in northern Malawi is forcing archaeologists to rethink when and ...
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 ...
In an ancient rock shelter in the heart of Malawi, archaeologists have found the world's oldest evidence of a funeral pyre ...
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 ...
North Dakota’s pioneer Capitol building was creaky by 1930. It was also a serious fire trap, as the state found out just ...