Archaeologica.org

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56986457

Ancient child grave was Africa's earliest funeral

A glimpse of human grief, at the loss of a child 78,000 years ago, has been revealed in the discovery of the oldest burial site in Africa.

The Middle Stone Age grave - of a three-year-old child - was found in a cave in Kenya.

In a paper in the journal Nature, the researchers who studied the fragile, ancient remains described how its head appeared to have been laid on a pillow.

Scientists have named the child Mtoto, meaning "the kid" in Swahili.

You'd probably get a better understanding of their conclusions from reading the actual report by the excavators instead of some reporter's take on what it said.

Sadly, the citation for the paper only gives an abstract and I'm not going to pay $9.00 to read it!

Minimalist wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 8:37 am You'd probably get a better understanding of their conclusions from reading the actual report by the excavators instead of some reporter's take on what it said.

Sadly, the citation for the paper only gives an abstract and I'm not going to pay $9.00 to read it!

Oh hell no! I wouldn't either. That's ridiculous. I wonder who profits from the sale of the papers. Certainly not the author/s. I doubt that my son ever received a cent from the sale of his papers. (Although they probably did help him get grant monies in a roundabout way)

Of course Dorothy's dog in the Wizard of Oz was called Toto, one wondered where Walt had learned Swahili. I was told it meant young child and was not a pejorative, my brother was described as such

Good write up. Frankly, I would expect the Smithsonian to do a better job than some over-worked editor for the BBC who gets a blurb in from a press release.

Funny that you should post that now.

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