The Red Lady of Paviland is a fairly complete Upper Paleolithic era human male skeleton dyed in red ochre . It was the first human fossil to have been found anywhere in the world. ref http www.britarch.ac.uk ba ba61 feat3.shtml Stephen Aldhouse Green, British Archaeology Magazine, Issue 61, October 2001 ref The bones were discovered in 1823 by Rev. William Buckland , during an archaeological dig at Goat s Hole Cave one of the limestone caves between Port Eynon and Rhossili , on the Gower Peninsula , south Wales . ref name BBC news cite web url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi wales south west 7069001.stm title Ancient skeleton was even older accessdate 29 December 2010 date 30 October 2007 publisher BBC work BBC News website ref Buckland believed the remains to be those of a female, dating to Roman Britain. However, more recent analysis of the remains shows them to have been a young male, and radiocarbon dating shows the skeleton to date around 29,000 Before Present years before present BP . ref name BBC news The story surrounding the skeleton is now the focus of a major arts project, supported by the Arts Council of Wales, which premiered in Carmarthen, West Wales, on 01 April 2010. Image Upper Paleolihic Art in Europe.gif thumb Map of findings of Upper Paleolithic art in Europe ... the curious afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland 2007 p. 1 ref he misjudged both its age and its ... Green first Stephen editorlast Denison editorfirst Simon year 2001 title Great Sites Paviland ... from Paviland, Journal of Human Evolution, 2008 ref Although now on the coast, at the time ..., Oct. 2001, Great Sites Paviland Cave http www.explore gower.co.uk Content pa showpage pid 33.html Paviland Cave Explore Gower http icwales.icnetwork.co.uk 0100news 0200wales tm objectid 15015937&method ... 7132451.stm BBC Wales Ancient skeleton goes on display http www.gtj.org.uk en item10 8642 Paviland ... Gower Peninsula cy Ogof Paviland pl Czerwona Dama z Paviland ru ... more details
Year nav topic2 1823 archaeology science The year 1823 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Empty section date July 2010 Excavations Empty section date July 2010 Finds Red Lady of Paviland by Rev. William Buckland , Gower Peninsula in south Wales . Smythe s Megalith . Publications Empty section date July 2010 Births Empty section date July 2010 Deaths Empty section date July 2010 See also Ancient Egypt Egyptology Category 1823 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology Category 1820s in science Archaeology Category 1823 in science Archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1823 ... more details
Year nav topic 1823 science The year 1823 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy Olbers paradox is described by the Germany German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matth us Olbers . December 29 Great Comet of 1823 first observed. Exploration February 20 James Weddell s expedition to Antarctica reaches latitude 74 15 S and longitude 34 16 45 W, the most southerly position that will be attained for more than 80 years. Medicine October 5 The Lancet founded by Thomas Wakley . Paleontology January In a cave on the Gower Peninsula of Wales , William Buckland discovers the Red Lady of Paviland , the first identification of a prehistoric male human burial. The bones are discovered with those of the woolly mammoth , proving that the two had coexisted. ref cite journal first Stephen last Aldhouse Green title Great Sites Paviland Cave journal British Archaeology issue 61 month October year 2001 url http www.britarch.ac.uk ba ba61 feat3.shtml accessdate 2010 07 16 ref Physics William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet Awards Copley Medal John Pond Births January 8 Alfred Russel Wallace d. 1913 in science 1913 , British Natural history naturalist who devised the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin . February 3 Spencer Fullerton Baird d. 1887 in science 1887 , ornithologist and ichthyologist . December 22 Jean Henri Fabre d. 1915 in science 1915 , French people French entomologist . Deaths January 26 Edward Jenner b. 1749 in science 1749 , inventor of the vaccine . References reflist Category 1823 in science fr 1823 en science mk 1823 sv Vetenskaps ret 1823 ... more details
class infobox width 350 align center Image Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 30px 1823 in the United Kingdom Image Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 30px style background color f3f3f3 align center small Other years small align center 1821 in the United Kingdom 1821 1822 in the United Kingdom 1822 1823 1824 in the United Kingdom 1824 1825 in the United Kingdom 1825 Events from the year 1823 in the United Kingdom . Incumbents Monarch George IV of the United Kingdom King George IV Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool Lord Liverpool , Tory Events January In Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula , William Buckland discovers the Red Lady of Paviland , the first identification of a prehistoric male human burial. ref cite journal first Stephen last Aldhouse Green title Great Sites Paviland Cave journal British Archaeology issue 61 month October year 2001 url http www.britarch.ac.uk ba ba61 feat3.shtml accessdate 2010 07 16 ref 20 February Explorer James Weddell s expedition to Antarctica reaches latitude 74 15 S and longitude 34 16 45 W the southernmost position any ship had reached before, a record that will hold for more than 80 years. March Royal Academy of Music opens. ref name CBH 17 June Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof material later used to make Mackintosh coats. ref name Pocket On This Day cite book title Penguin Pocket On This Day publisher Penguin Reference Library isbn 0 14 102715 0 year 2006 ref July Robert Peel ensures the passage of five Acts of Parliament, effectively abolishing the death penalty for over one hundred offences ref name CBH cite book last Palmer first Alan coauthors Veronica year 1992 title The Chronology of British History publisher Century Ltd location London pages 252 253 isbn 0 7126 5616 2 ref in particular, the Judgement of Death Act 1823 Judgement of Death Act allows judges to commute sentences for capital offences other than murder or treason to imprisonment or Penal transportation transportation . ref cit ... more details
Year in Wales header 1823 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 to Wales and Welsh people its people . Incumbents Prince of Wales vacant Princess of Wales vacant Events February John Frost is sentenced to six months in prison for a libel against the town clerk of Newport. March 26 The packet ship Alert sinks off the Skerries, Anglesey , with the loss of a hundred lives. William Buckland discovers the Red Lady of Paviland . A major eisteddfod is held at Mold, Flintshire Mold . The Welsh Literary Society of Brecon is established by Thomas Price Carnhuanawc . The Calvinistic Methodist denomination draws up a confession of faith. Arts and literature New books Felicia Hemans The Siege of Valencia Huw Morys Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o b r ganiadau Huw Morus posthumous, ed. Walter Davies Music David Charles Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion hymn s John Ellis musician John Ellis Eliot hymn tune Births January 8 Alfred Russel Wallace , biologist d. 1913 February 11 Llewellyn Turner , politician d. 1903 March Rowland Williams Hwfa M n , poet and archdruid d. 1905 November 17 Sir John Evans archaeologist John Evans , archaeologist d. 1908 Deaths February 26 John Philip Kemble , actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 66 December 4 John Ryland Harris Ieuan Ddu , printer, 20 date unknown William Joseph Williams , American painter of Welsh parentage, 64? Category 1823 by country Wales Category 1823 in the United Kingdom Wales ... more details
This list of archaeological site s is sorted by continent and then by the age of the site. For one sorted by country, see the list of archaeological sites by country . Europe Palaeolithic Lower Swanscombe Heritage Park Barnfield Pit , Kent, Great Britain Bilzingsleben Paleolithic site Bilzingsleben , Thuringia, Germany. Clactonian Boxgrove , East Sussex, Great Britain. Clacton on Sea , Great Britain. Clactonian V rtessz l s , Hungary Middle B ile Herculane , Romania , middle Palaeolithic as well as Mesolithic Creswell Crags , Great Britain K nigsaue , Germany Krapina , Croatia Le Moustier , France, Mousterian Neanderthal, Germany Neanderthal , Germany, Neandertal Upper Altamira cave Altamira , Cantabria, Spain Aurignac , Haute Garonne, France, Aurignacian Ch telperron , central and south western France, Ch telperronian Chauvet Cave , southern France C a Valley Paleolithic Art , northeastern Portugal , S tios arqueol gicos de Portugal Dolni Vestonice settlement Dolni Vestonice , Gravettian , Moravia Ignateva Cave , South Urals, Russia La Gravette , Dordogne, France, Gravettian La Madelaine , Dordogne, France, Magdalenian Lascaux , Dordogne, France, Magdalenian Meiendorf , northern Germany, Hamburgian Culture Mladec , Moravia Red Lady of Paviland Paviland Caves , Great Britain, Wales, Aurignacian Solutr , eastern France, Solutrean Mesolithic Alby, land Alby, Sweden Astuvansalmi , Finland Cramond , United Kingdom Franchthi , Greece Friesack , Germany, Brandenburg Hohen Viecheln , Germany, Mecklenburg Howick house , United Kingdom Pulli settlement Pulli settlement, Estonia Lepenski Vir , Serbia Star Carr and Star Carr house , United Kingdom Mount Sandel Mesolithic site Mount Sandal Northern Ireland , United Kingdom Ythan Estuary , Sands of Forvie , Aberdeenshire , Scotland Neolithic Ardgroom , Ireland Avebury , Britain Bylany archaeology Bylany , Czech Republic Carnac stones , France Carrigagulla , Ireland Cucuteni Trypillian culture , Moldova, Romania, Ukraine Glanta ... more details
ref The Paviland limestone caves of the Gower Peninsula in south Wales are by far the richest source ..., Homo sapiens sapiens to be found in Wales was the famous Red Lady of Paviland . This was a human skeleton dyed in red ochre discovered in 1823 in one of the Paviland caves. ref http news.bbc.co.uk 1 ... from Coygan Cave held on Gathering the Jewels http www.gtj.org.uk en item10 8642 Artifacts from Paviland ... more details
Frank . In 1823 Buckland discovered the Red Lady of Paviland in Wales , ref Sommer, Marianne Bones and ochre the curious afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland 2007 p. 1 ref which remains the oldest anatomically modern human found in the United Kingdom. Although he found the skeleton in Paviland Cave ... more details
Infobox Writer for more information see Template Infobox Writer doc name Steph Swainston image swainston.jpg caption Steph Swainston birthdate 1974 birthplace Bradford , Yorkshire , England deathdate deathplace occupation Novelist genre Literary fantasy New Weird movement notableworks influences William Burroughs , Angela Carter , M. John Harrison influenced website http www.stephswainston.co.uk Steph Swainston is a British literary fantasy science fiction author, receiving critical acclaim from China Mi ville among others for her first novel The Year of Our War 2004 . The book won the 2005 Crawford Award and a nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. The sequel No Present Like Time was published in 2005. Swainston s third book, The Modern World novel The Modern World , is set in the same universe and was published in May 2007. Her new novel Above the Snowline will be published in 2010, and she has begun work on a fifth book. ref Blog entry http www.stephswainston.co.uk blog steph 2009 02 above the snowline the fourth castle book Above the Snowline the fourth Castle book 24 February 2009 ref Early life She was born in Bradford , Yorkshire, in 1974. She lives in the United Kingdom. She has a message board at Night Shade Books , and sample chapters of her novels are free online on http www.stephswainston.co.uk the books the books page of her website . Ms. Swainston has previously worked in a variety of jobs, including as a qualified archaeologist with a degree from Girton College , University of Cambridge , and a research degree from the University of Wales , being employed on a dig that researched the oldest recorded burial site in the UK, Paviland Cave , as well as in Hayonim Cave in Israel . Additional occupations include working for an ethical company developing pharmaceuticals from cannabis , as an assistant in a zoo vet s lab and as a researcher for the Ministry of Defence United Kingdom MoD . Influences Swainston lists William Burroughs , ... more details
More footnotes date March 2009 The recorded history of Swansea in Wales covers a period of continuous occupation stretching back a thousand years, while there is archaeology archaeological evidence of prehistory prehistoric human occupation of the surrounding area for thousands of years before that. Swansea lang cy Abertawe occupying a position at the mouth of the River Tawe and adjacent to an extensive Swansea Bay bay at the western end of the Bristol Channel was the main town of its region for much of the Middle Ages Mediaeval period. Clarify date September 2010 In the 18th century, local dignitaries attempted to establish it as a tourist resort. The town achieved greater prominence with the onset of the Industrial Revolution . Mirroring the similar population explosions in the South Wales Valleys , the Swansea s population rose from 6,000 to 17,000 between the Census es of 1801 and 1851 . Industry grew throughout the 19th century, drastically changing the shape and even geography of the town and its surroundings. In the 20th century, industry declined but the town continued to grow in population. Swansea officially gained city status in 1969. Pre industrial Swansea The oldest known remains on the Gower Peninsula are the Red Lady of Paviland human bones dating from 22,000BC. ref name GtG A Guide to Gower , Strawbridge and Thomas eds , 1999, published by the Gower Society.ISBN 0 902767 23 2 ref Later inhabitants also left their mark on the land. Examples include the Bronze Age burial mound at Cillibion and the Iron Age hill fort , Cil Ifor. ref name Davis HoW A History of Wales , John Davies, Penguin, 1990 ISBN 0 14 014581 8 ref Isolated prehistoric artifacts have been found in the area the city proper occupies, but there are far more on Gower. The remains of a Roman villa were also excavated on Gower. By the late 10th century, the region as a whole including the land around the bay as well as the Gower Peninsula was part of the Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth under Ma ... more details
, p. 3. ref 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. Despite ... more details
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