[blam]

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Paviland Cave And The Red Lady

[G8 Diplomat]

Red Lady of America:

[Coyoteman]

Good post. Thanks!

I would have liked more details on the dating methods.

They are probably doing AMS dating on the associated artifacts, or maybe even the bones themselves.

The AMS techniques are really helping to clarify some of the earlier dating estimates.

[JimSEA]

He also said it "might" suggest that the custom of burying people with artefacts originated in western Europe rather than eastern Europe as had previously been thought.As you know, I am impatient with this idea that something has to originate in one spot and be copied by other, obviously not creative people. That said, pushing this site back so much further in time is fascinating. Where did they go, if anywhere, when the ice returned?

[preacher]

A heaadline for this story could be:

“Problems In Dating Older Women”

[SunkenCiv]

When discovered in a cave on Gower in the 1820s the bones were thought to be around 18,000 years old, but were later redated to between 25,000 and 26,000... The skeleton of the Red Lady - actually a young male - was discovered at Goat's Hole Cave at Paviland on Gower in 1823 by William Buckland, then a geology professor at Oxford University... The remains were found along with a number of artefacts including ivory wands, bracelets and periwinkle shells... "Many of the bones were treated with preservations in the 19th Century and some of this contamination is often difficult to remove." He said their analysis was the bones were "just over" 29,000 years old.

"...and we really mean it this time. And she, I mean, he, was interred by loved ones in Sheep's Hole Cave, oops, I mean, Goat's Hole, oh, what's the difference?!?"

[SunkenCiv]

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