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Ancient child’s burial on the Nile

A child’s skeleton discovered in a Stone Age rock quarry in Egypt may represent the oldest known human burial in Africa.

 

References:

Vermeersch, P.M. . . . C. Stringer, et al. 1998. A Middle Palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa Hill, Egypt. Antiquity 72(September):475.

 

Sources:

Christopher B. Stringer
Natural History Museum
Department of Palaeontology
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
England

Pierre M. Vermeersch
Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Redingenstraat 16
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 15, October 10, 1998, p. 235.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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