100,000-year-old Homo sapiens bones from Ethiopia may preserve earliest evidence of human cremation

Researchers studying Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have reported what could be the oldest known evidence of human cremation. The finding comes from sediments about 100,000 years old in the Middle Awash region, an area with one of Africa’s richest records of early Homo sapiens life. The study focused on the Faro Daba beds in the lower […]