Is This The Oldest Known Burial Site For Humans That We’ve Ever Discovered?

Amaze Lab

In a cave near the coast of Kenya lies the body of a child dating back 78,000 years. The discovery is the oldest known human burial site and sheds new light on the emotional life of early man. Amaze Lab’s Johana Restrepo has more.

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00:00in a cave near the coast of kenya lies the body of a child dating back 78 000 years the discovery

00:11is the oldest known human burial site and sheds new light on the emotional life of early man

00:17the head of archaeology for kenya's museums pointed out that for a very long time researchers

00:23only had bits and pieces about the technology and the environment of homo sapiens we are beginning to

00:29understand now this we're having people having some emotional attachments to the dead according to

00:36reuters the upper part of the body was carefully wrapped in shroud and the head was resting on a

00:41pillow the body was placed in a shallow grave dental analysis revealed that the child was two to three

00:48years old and the remains of various antelope species and other prey showed that the child was part of a

00:54hunter-gatherer culture the location of the burial site shows that early homo sapiens lived in

01:00different parts of what is now kenya which contradicts a belief that early humans only settled in the great

01:07rift valley

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