Still Waters Posted May 5, 2021 #1 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Despite being home to the earliest signs of modern human behavior, early evidence of burials in Africa are scarce and often ambiguous. Therefore, little is known about the origin and development of mortuary practices in the continent of our species' birth. A child buried at the mouth of the Panga ya Saidi cave site 78,000 years ago is changing that, revealing how Middle Stone Age populations interacted with the dead. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-oldest-human-burial-africa-uncovered.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03457-8 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Reaper 6 Posted May 6, 2021 #2 Share Posted May 6, 2021 7 hours ago, Still Waters said: Despite being home to the earliest signs of modern human behavior, early evidence of burials in Africa are scarce and often ambiguous. Therefore, little is known about the origin and development of mortuary practices in the continent of our species' birth. A child buried at the mouth of the Panga ya Saidi cave site 78,000 years ago is changing that, revealing how Middle Stone Age populations interacted with the dead. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-oldest-human-burial-africa-uncovered.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03457-8 Wow, that's a great story and a fantastic discovery. Thanks very much for sharing, I really enjoyed it!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethrofloyd Posted May 7, 2021 #3 Share Posted May 7, 2021 A great story and discovery from a distant past of mankind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the frog Posted May 7, 2021 #4 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Sad that this little kid didn't rest in peace after all. We need better ground-penetrating radar for most of these. Edited May 7, 2021 by Jon the frog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_mc Posted May 8, 2021 #5 Share Posted May 8, 2021 I think human pre-history is really exciting. We didn't go around hitting each other in our heads with clubs, saying "ugh ugh" for 200.000-300.000 years, and then all of a sudden started building space ships. So much must have happened during that time period, would be really exciting to get to know more. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl.Of.Trumps Posted May 8, 2021 #6 Share Posted May 8, 2021 (edited) very good article, I learned two things here: luminescence dating for organic samples over 40,000 years old. Interesting! The other is this: Quote This supports recent archaeological and genetic research suggesting our species didn't evolve from a single population in one region of Africa. Rather, modern human populations living in different parts of Africa looked different to one another and followed different evolutionary trajectories. Say whaaaaa....? Mind blowing. To ME, I mean. Edited May 8, 2021 by Earl.Of.Trumps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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