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Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa
| datacite.subject.sdg | 11:Cidades e Comunidades Sustentáveis | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 04:Educação de Qualidade | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 09:Indústria, Inovação e Infraestruturas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cerezo-Román, Jessica I. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sawchuk, Elizabeth | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schilt, Flora Cecilia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bertacchi, Alex | |
| dc.contributor.author | Buckley, Gina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chibisa, Edwin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fahey, B. Patrick | |
| dc.contributor.author | Falchenberg, Sofia Gunilla Hedman | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kaliba, Potiphar | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kennett, Douglas J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mercader, Julio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pargeter, Justin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stock, Jay | |
| dc.contributor.author | Szymanski, Ryan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Thompson, Jessica C. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-02T14:15:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-03-02T14:15:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026-01-02 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Human cremation on an open pyre demands intensive labor, communal resources, and sensory exposures. We report the earliest evidence for intentional cremation in Africa, the oldest in situ adult pyre in the world, and one of only a few associated with hunter-gatherers. A large cremation feature at Hora 1 in Malawi dates to similar to 9500 years ago and contains the remains of a small, gracile adult with evidence for perimortem defleshing and postcremation manipulation. Subsequent revisiting of the site to build fires in the same place provided additional pyrotechnological spectacles. High-resolution, multiproxy reconstruction of the ritual associated with cremation and its subsequent deposition demonstrates complex mortuary practices among ancient African foraging groups with substantial social investment and use of natural landscape features as persistent mortuary monuments. | eng |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1126/sciadv.adz9554 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2375-2548 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/28303 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Science Advances | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Femoral-head diameters | |
| dc.subject | Long-bone diaphyses | |
| dc.subject | Later stone-age | |
| dc.subject | Terminal pleistocene | |
| dc.subject | Sex determination | |
| dc.subject | Miombo woodlands | |
| dc.subject | Foragers | |
| dc.subject | Cave | |
| dc.subject | Osteoarthritis | |
| dc.subject | Robusticity | |
| dc.title | Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa | eng |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | eadz9554 | |
| oaire.citation.title | Science Advances | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 12 | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |
| person.familyName | Schilt | |
| person.familyName | Buckley | |
| person.givenName | Flora Cecilia | |
| person.givenName | Gina | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 1E1A-801A-67B8 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 4C10-B0FF-FB1A | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-2144-3017 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-5399-9311 | |
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