The history of cremation
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Cremation, the practice of turning bodies into ashes, is a popular method of reducing human remains to basic chemical compounds in the form of gases and bone fragments, and it has a long history.... A careful analysis of the history of cremation confirms that, in the archaeological records, it is a practice that dates back to at least 20,000 years ago and the remains of a partly cremated body of the Mungo Lady was found at Mungo Lake, Australia....