Virtual reconstruction of Mtoto’s position in the burial pit. Image: Jorge González/Elena Santos.
Virtual reconstruction of Mtoto's position in the burial pit. Image: Jorge González/Elena Santos. Àfrica Pitarch, Beatriu de Pinós researcher in the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar of the UB (SERP-UB) 000 years ago. Researchers found remains of a child aged between 2.5 and 3, in a shallow grave in the site of Panga ya Saidi (Kenya). This burial joins other evidence of the first social complex behaviour seen in Homo Sapiens. Despite being home to the earliest signs of modern human behaviour, burials in Africa are very scarce and even ambiguous sometimes. Therefore, there is not much information on the origins and the development of burial practices in the continent where our species was born.
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