October
03
/ 2013
A team of scientists have discovered the 9,000-year-old remains of a woman buried in a cave in El Nido, Palawan in the Philippines, which reveal evidence of an elaborate and bizarre ritual burial. The bones of this woman were defleshed and crushed. They were burned and put in a small box before she was put in her final resting place. According to the study authors whose findings were published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, the burial "demonstrate(s) a complex ritualistic treatment" that "has not (yet) been recorded in Southeast Asia." The discovery is rare and significant because it is the first evidence of a cremation burial in this period in Southeast Asia and, so far, appears to be the
