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A group of archaeologists has found the oldest deliberate burial of a modern human ever discovered in Africa, dating back 78,300 years ago. The discovery sheds new light on the early origins of this ancient practice.

Claudia Philipp/Wuppertal Zoo Germany Mhudiblu, a female bonobo whose genome was sequenced, holds her baby daughter Akeema Chimpanzees and bonobos...

A cave in Kenya has now been identified as the oldest intentional human burial site in Africa, with luminescence dating showing that the burial took place around 78,300 years ago. Excavation of the Panga ya Saidi cave, located to the north of Mombasa, revealed a grave located under a sheltered overhang, 3 meters (9.8 feet) deep below the present-day cave floor. The discovery was reported in a paper published today in the journal Nature. “As soon as we first visited Panga ya Saidi, we knew tha...

A new study featured on the 6 May cover of Nature by an international team of researchers details the earliest modern human burial in Africa. The remains of a 2.5 to 3 year-old child were found in a flexed position, deliberately buried in a shallow grave directly under the sheltered overhang of the cave. The interment at Panga ya Saidi joins increasing evidence of early complex social behaviours in Homo sapiens. © Mohammad Javad Shoaee General view of the cave site of Panga ya Saidi. ...

It is a scene that exudes sadness: a child perhaps 2-1/2 or 3 years old buried in a shallow grave under the sheltered overhang of a cave, head resting on a pillow and the upper part of the body carefully wrapped in a shroud.

Share An artist’s illustration depicts how Mtoto may have been laid to rest in its grave. Fernando Fueyo Scientists unearth Africa’s oldest burial: a small child, laid to rest 78,000 years ago May. 5, 2021 , 11:00 AM Some 78,000 years ago, a community in East Africa laid to rest a child of about 3 years old. Its caretakers dug a shallow pit, curled its small body, and may have rested its head on a pillow before committing the body to the earth. A new study describing the excavation ...

By Josh Davis First published 5 May 2021 The discovery of the burial of a small child in a cave in Kenya is providing new insights into the development of funerary practices of modern humans. Dating to roughly 78,000 years old, the grave is the oldest human burial discovered in Africa to date.  When and where modern humans first started displaying behaviours that we see as central to our own sense of identity has been long debated. A lot of these aspects, such as language and belief systems, l...

SCIENCE-BURIAL/ (PIX):Child's burial 78,000 years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone

While anatomically modern humans originated in Africa around 200,000 years ago, the excavation of a child’s remains buried at the mouth of a cave on the coast of Kenya 78,000 years ago is teaching scientists how Middle Stone Age populations interacted with their dead. Ideal reconstruction of Mtoto’s original position at the moment of its discovery at the site. (Photo credit: Martinón-Torres, et al., 2021) (CN) — Archeologists have discovered the oldest human burial in Africa, revealing i...

Scientists has uncovered the earliest modern human burial in east Africa, which changes what we know about social behaviors in Homo sapiens.