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On 18 January 1823, The Red Lady of Paviland was discovered in a cave on the Gower peninsula, Swansea, by William Buckland, a reverend and Oxford University's first ever professor of geology.
"She" was immediately transported to the Oxford University museum, prompting a two-century campaign for the remains to be repatriated back to Wales.
Yet, for at least the first century a
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Hermione
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Ancient History
Has anyone read this? Does anyone have copies of any of the reviews, eg
Brian Fagan
Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland (review)
Journal of Interdisciplinary History - Volume 39, Number 4, Spring 2009, pp. 574-575
Isis March 2009, Vol. 100, No. 1: pp. 188-189
Marianne Sommer. Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland. Brian Regal
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Doug Weller
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Ancient History
The Red Lady of Paviland has always been a little coy about her age - but it appears she may be 4,000 years older than previously thought.
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Hermione
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Ancient History
This is a follow up to the story I posted about a "druid" who staged a sit in at Paviland Cave in Gower to get the bones of a paleolithic man discovered in the early nineteenth century to be returned to the cave.
The "druid" still wants them returned to the cave rather than exhibited at a welsh museum but as the photo with the story shows, the cave is very close to the se
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Cleoleo
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Ancient History
A self styled druid is staging a sit in at Paviland cave on the coast near Swansea in Wales, GB,as a protest at the removal of a paleolithic skeleton from the site at the begining of the nineteenth century and with the aim of getting it reburied there.
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Cleoleo
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Ancient History
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> > northern Britain -- this is quite a long time before the blue
> > pain in either Mexico or northern Britain, of course.
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> The Red Paint people lived quite awhi
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Doug Weller
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Ancient History
<HTML>Doug Weller wrote:
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> As I said last time this was raised, excarnation was
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> northern Britain -- this is quite a long time before the blue
> pain in either Mexico or northern Britain, of course.
The Red Paint people lived quite awhile before the use of blue colors also. Do you know what the origin an
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Joanne
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Ancient History
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> For funerary practices, I'm am referring to excarnation and
> keeping the ancestors
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Doug Weller
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Ancient History
<HTML>M J Harper wrote:
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> Very well, John, perhaps you might tell me of a single
> Cro-Magnon find--fossil or artefact, I'm not fussy--that is
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> Continental shelf or otherwise, I'm not fussy.
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I despair. First, you only find Cro-Magnon where the Cro-Magnon were found, it denotes a handf
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Doug Weller
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Ancient History