Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavators standing at the depth of the pyre at the Hora 1 site in northern Malawi. Photo by Jessica Thompson/The Conversation Jan ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 ...

Archaeologists discover human remains by pyre in recent excavation in Malawi, suggesting hunter gatherer societies attributed great importance to ritual funerals ...

Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper ...

In an ancient rock shelter in the heart of Malawi, archaeologists have found the world's oldest evidence of a funeral pyre for an adult.