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5 maj 2021 · By Bruce Bower. May 5, 2021 at 11:00 am. 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...
5 maj 2021 · 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. A new study describing the excavation of the child's grave reveals the oldest known evidence of modern humans in Africa burying their dead.
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American youth who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States.
5 maj 2021 · A child laid to rest 78,000 years ago yields clues to early human burials in East Africa. A virtual ideal reconstruction of the burial position of Mtoto, a 3-year-old boy buried 78,000 years...
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 · Child and juvenile burials are not uncommon in the Eurasian record, and now we have definitive evidence for not just intentional burial at 78,000 years ago in Africa, but the burial of a young...
5 maj 2021 · The discovery of the burial of a small child in a cave in Kenya is providing new insights into the development of funerary practices of modern humans. Dating to roughly 78,000 years old, the grave is the oldest human burial discovered in Africa to date.
