78,000-year-old grave marks Africa’s oldest known human burial

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A child’s 78,000-year-old grave marks Africa’s oldest known human burial

Cave excavation of a youngster’s grave pushes back the date of the first human burial identified in the continent by at least a few thousand years.

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"A child whose lifeless body was carefully placed in an East African cave around 78,300 years ago has made a grand return."

 

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