Remains of a 3-year-old child discovered in a cave in Kenya called Panga ya Saidi are the oldest known burial in Africa. Researchers named the child Mtoto, which means 鈥渃hild鈥 in Swahili, and estimate that they lived around 78,300 years ago, making this the oldest deliberate burial found in Africa. 鈥淚t was a child and someone gave it a farewell,鈥 says researcher Mar铆a Martin贸n-Torres.
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