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Earliest known human burial in Africa
María Martinón-Torres, Francesco d'Errico, Elena Santos, 2021. Nature 593: 95-100.
The burial of a child of about three at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya, about 78,000 years ago, shown by a dug pit, sediment micromorphology and the articulated, flexed body; the earliest accepted burial in Africa.
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A reference case for what the evidence of a Pleistocene burial looks like.
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Martinón-Torres, M., d'Errico, F., & Santos, E. (2021). Earliest known human burial in Africa. Nature 593: 95-100. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03457-8
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