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