Red Lady of Paviland

As Red Lady of Paviland (also: Red Lady ) is called a very completely preserved, male skeleton, which in 1823 referred to in a Goat 's Hole limestone cave on the cliff coast of the Gower Peninsula, 15 miles west of Swansea in South Wales discovered. It was the world's first fossil of an individual of the genus Homo and the Hominini, which was described by a scientist in a publication. This Fund is now attributed to an age of more than 30,000 years ago; therefore it belongs to the known as Cro -Magnons, the earliest settlers of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and is one of the oldest evidence of their presence in the British Isles.

The naming of the skeleton refers to the Paviland mentioned locality and the coloration of the bones, which had been before they were laid down in the cave, treated with red ocher. Their discoverer, William Buckland barg carefully the bones and the weight attached to them passed pearls and ivory jewelry and graduated from the coloring and the grave goods that it must be the remains of a woman. In his 1823 book published Reliquiae Diluvianae Buckland had - who took literally the (Genesis) of the Bible - also expressly indicated that he - was discovered in the cave no indications of colonization before the Flood (p. 96 - despite numerous animal fossils ); he suspected, therefore, that there had been at the supposed wife to a witch or a prostitute from the time of the Roman Empire.

For the bone Fund, whose age is estimated at the time of death at about 21 years in 1968 was first determined using the radiocarbon age of 22,000 years, which would have meant that Wales would have been settled during one of the coldest phase of the Weichselian cold period. 1989 yielded a new radiocarbon dating an age of 30,000 years, and a third had dating in 2008, even an age of 33,000 years, so a date in the Denekamp - hot period of the Weichsel glaciation.

The bones of the Red Lady of Paviland are held at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.