A body burned inside a hut 20,000 years ago signaled shifting views of death
Linking the dead with human-built structures may have brought the dead and living closer
![Burned remains of a woman](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/020821_bb_burial_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Charred remains of a woman (pictured) found amid burned remnants of a hut at a Jordanian site indicate that her dead body was placed there for an unusual burial event about 19,200 years ago.
L. Maher, D. Macdonald, EFAP Archive