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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