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Prehistoric Wales

The earliest evidence of human beings in Wales dates from about 225,000 BC, the date given to human teeth found in Pontnewydd Cave in the Elwy Valley in Denbighshire.

 A series of Ice Ages meant that Wales was devoid of inhabitants during most of the subsequent millennia. The most significant evidence of the presence in Wales of Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age people is the burial discovered in Paviland Cave in Gower.

 The bones were assumed to be those of a female and, as they had been coloured with red ochre, the skeleton became known as that of the ‘Red Lady of Paviland’,but  the skeleton is now known to be that of a young man and to date from about 24,000 BC.

Paviland, is on The Gower coastline (only a stones throw from Penmaen (not sure if I have spelt that correctly).  At the time when this person was walking around Swansea, the ‘sea view’ would have far away in the distance and trees would have been the main view from Paviland !

 It represents the earliest example in Britain of a ritual burial.

posted on Oct 18, 2010 11:14 AM ()

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It's hard to grasp the idea of someone living so long ago. I guess they could call him 'the Red Dude of Paviland.'
comment by troutbend on Oct 18, 2010 2:12 PM ()
When the skeleton was first discovered, it was thought to be of an ancient prostitute (because the bones were painted in 'red' oche), hence 'the red lady'
I have been near, the that particular bay, but never to it. I watched the presenter of the programme it was on ('Coast') and she and the guy taking her, had an absaloute 'trek' down a crumbling cliff, to get into the cave (so I, won't be going in it) If I could, I would though
reply by febreze on Oct 20, 2010 9:48 AM ()
Thanks. When the ice sheets grew, the sea lowered. On the other side of Britain lay a land called Doggerland, now at the bottom of the North Sea. It was a lowland attached to the Low Countries and it was populated until the melting ice filled the seas again to their current shorelines.
comment by jondude on Oct 18, 2010 1:23 PM ()
It is so hard to take in, all the families and villages which must have been lost, at the time of the ice melts. It has got to have been awful - they were only like you and I. Tragic, when you think about it
reply by febreze on Oct 20, 2010 9:53 AM ()

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