Ancient Smoked Mummies Reveal 14,000-Year-Old Burial Practices
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New archaeological findings reveal that deliberate mummification practices, particularly smoke-mummification, date back up to 12,000 years in Southeast Asia and southern China, predating and expanding our understanding of ancient mortuary rituals beyond Egypt and Chile, and indicating a long-standing cultural tradition among hunter-gatherer societies.
Topics:world#ancient-burial-practices#archaeology#mummification#pre-neolithic#smoke-mummification#southeast-asia
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- The oldest human mummies were slowly smoked 14,000 years ago New Scientist
- "The Body Is Slowly And Continuously Heated": 14,000-Year-Old Smoked Mummies Are World’s Oldest IFLScience
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