Red Lady of Paviland

The most famous example from this period is the burial of the Red Lady of Paviland in modern day Wales.

The Red Lady of Paviland, actually the remains of a young male, is the earliest formal human burial to have been found in western Europe.

William Buckland misjudged what he had found in 1823 with the misnamed Red Lady of Paviland, and explained away the mammoth remains with the find.

The Red Lady of Paviland is a fairly complete Upper Paleolithic-era human male skeleton dyed in red ochre.

The oldest known remains on the Gower Peninsula are the Red Lady of Paviland: human bones dating from 22,000 BC.

It was the second discovery of a fossil man after the discovery of the Red Lady of Paviland in Wales in 1823.

In Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, William Buckland discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial.

They are known to have had a presence in the geographical region that was to become Great Britain by 29,000 years ago, due to the discovery of the skeletal remains of the "Red Lady of Paviland".

The Red Lady of Paviland, a human skeleton dyed in red ochre, was discovered in 1823 in one of the Paviland limestone caves of the Gower Peninsula in Swansea, South Wales.

Early carbon dating has tended to underestimate the age of samples and as radio carbon dating techniques have developed and become more and more accurate so the age of the Red Lady of Paviland has gradually been pushed back.

Using evidence from across continental Europe to supplement the few finds from Britain, Burl notes that it was the period when humans began ritualistically burying their dead, citing examples like that of the Red Lady of Paviland, providing potential evidence for a belief in an afterlife.

On 18th January 1823 Buckland climbed down to Paviland Cave, where he discovered the Red Lady of Paviland, so-called as Buckland originally thought it to a local prostitute, in Wales, which remains the oldest anatomically modern human found in the United Kingdom.

Red Lady of Paviland A project with composer Andrew Powell, Musical Director Craig Roberts and the Burry Port Town Band, the centrepiece of which will be Menna and Andrew's new work 'Y Dyn Unig' (The Lonely Man).