New evidence of cremation 9,500 years ago in south-central Africa challenges long-held notions about how hunter-gatherers ...

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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 ...

Far below the waves of the Pacific Ocean, cameras on a research vessel recently swept across something that looked impossible ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...