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Archaeologists find Africa’s oldest human burial, a child from 78,000 years ago – lintelligencer
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 that it…
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