KENYA - Child’s grave is the oldest human burial found in Africa [National Geographic, May 2021]

Title:

Child's grave is the oldest human burial found in Africa

 

Author:

Jamie Shreeve

 

Published:

National Geographic, 5 May 2021

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/childs-grave-is-the-oldest-human-burial-found-in-africa

 

From the article:

In a tour de force of discovery, recovery, and analysis, an interdisciplinary research team has uncovered the earliest known human burial in Africa. The grave, found less than 10 miles inland from southeast Kenya’s lush ocean beaches, contained the remains of a two- to three-year-old child buried with extraordinary care by a community of early Homo sapiens some 78,000 years ago.