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Origin and meaning. Fantasy coffins are mainly used by the southern Ghana-based Ga people because of their religious beliefs regarding the afterlife. The Ga believe that life continues in the next world in the same way it did on earth.
5 maj 2021 · A child whose lifeless body was carefully placed in an East African cave around 78,300 years ago has made a grand return. Researchers who unearthed the ancient youngster’s remains say that...
The roots of burial as a practice reach back into the Middle Palaeolithic and coincide with the appearance of Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens, in Europe and Africa respectively. As a result, burial grounds are found throughout the world.
5 maj 2021 · Some 78,000 years ago, a community in East Africa laid to rest a child of about 3 years old. Its caretakers dug a shallow pit, curled its small body, and may have rested its head on a pillow before committing the body to the earth.
5 maj 2021 · May 5, 2021. Researchers have identified the earliest known human burial in Africa at Panga ya Saidi, a cave near the Kenyan coast. A child, probably a boy of about 2-1/2 to 3 years old, was ...
6 maj 2021 · A child died two to three years into their life in the coastal highlands of what is now Kenya 78,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence suggests that survivors wrapped the small body tightly ...
5 maj 2021 · A small child buried almost 80,000 years ago in a cave in Kenya shows how ancient humans treated the dead.
