Jessica C. Thompson

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Por que essa comunidade queimou os restos mortais de uma mulher de forma tão visível e espetacular, e integrantes deste povo retornou ao local para reacender fogueiras durante gerações depois? Patrick Fahey

Cremação mais antiga conhecida na África gera mistério de 9.500 anos sobre caçadores‑coletores da Idade da Pedra

Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma

Cremação antiga teria sido um espetáculo comunitário em um local ao qual se retornava e se reacendiam fogueiras ao longo de muitas gerações. O que estava por trás desse ritual fúnebre?
Why did this community burn one woman’s remains in such a visible, spectacular way? Patrick Fahey

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500‑year‑old mystery about Stone Age hunter‑gatherers

Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What was behind this unexpected funeral ritual?
Le paysage de Mzimba, dans le nord du Malawi, où l’on a retrouvé une partie de l’ADN humain le plus ancien d’Afrique. Jacob Davis

Les morts ont‑ils leur mot à dire ? Le défi du consentement dans la recherche sur l'ADN ancien

Victoria Gibbon, University of Cape Town; Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University, and Sianne Alves, University of Cape Town

Les principes éthiques encadrant la recherche sur l’ADN ancien doivent préserver les générations passées, présentes et futures.
Together with artifacts from the past, ancient DNA can fill in details about our ancient ancestors. Nina R/Wikimedia Commons

Ancient DNA helps reveal social changes in Africa 50,000 years ago that shaped the human story

Elizabeth Sawchuk, University of Alberta; Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University, and Mary Prendergast, Rice University

A new study doubles the age of ancient DNA in sub-Saharan Africa, revealing how people moved, mingled and had children together over the last 50,000 years.
Today the shoreline of Lake Malawi is open, not forested the way it was before ancient humans started modifying the landscape. Jessica Thompson

Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of thousands of years ago in Stone Age Africa

Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; David K. Wright, University of Oslo, and Sarah Ivory, Penn State

Combining evidence from archaeology, geochronology and paleoenvironmental science, researchers identified how ancient humans by Lake Malawi were the first to substantially modify their environment.

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