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Hunter-gatherers cremated the headless body of a woman in a pyre around 9,500 years ago in what is now Malawi.
The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional cremation, as well as the earliest known cremation pyre for an adult that is ...