Today, 740 years ago, a nation was conquered.
Its King murdered, its relics stolen, its people subjugated, its language banned from formal use, its laws torn up, its resources plundered, all to the benefit of its conquerors.
Ond dyn ni yma o hyd. We are still here.
It is my aim to make sure we don't reach 750 years.
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Got the numbers wrong on this one. The rock art dates to 12500BC, not 14500BC!
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The time span between the stone shard tools and the rock rock carving is the same as the time span between the rock carving and now.
Both time gaps are around 14000 years. That is incredible.
Attached: 3 images #WelshHistoryThread 8 It is fascinating that there are no human finds or evidence of humans in Wales between the time of Paviland and Long Hole Cave until 10000 years later. TEN THOUSAND! An unfathomable amount of time! Cathole Cave, also on Gower, is a fantastic example. Stone points were discovered there and dated to around 26000BC, but the art drawn on the rocks dates to 14500BC. Palaeolithic settlers lived there, then over 11000 years later, people returned! #Cymru #History #IceAge
It is fascinating that there are no human finds or evidence of humans in Wales between the time of Paviland and Long Hole Cave until 10000 years later. TEN THOUSAND! An unfathomable amount of time!
Cathole Cave, also on Gower, is a fantastic example.
Stone points were discovered there and dated to around 26000BC, but the art drawn on the rocks dates to 14500BC.
Palaeolithic settlers lived there, then over 11000 years later, people returned!
Today, we leave behind the #Palaeolithic, with its caves, rudimentary stone tools and remains of animals long extinct from #Wales.
The last Ice Age is an important time in Wales. Humans abandoned Wales.
However, this was the time when the land was shaped. Between 27000 and 17000 years ago, most of Wales was covered in ice.
In this 10,000 year span, Eryri (Snowdonia) was carved and Wales's other mountain ranges were shaped!
Staying on Gower, excavations at a cave very close to Paviland Cave showed evidence of human settlement.
Stone tools, remains of cave hyena, reindeer, mammoth, wild horse, woolly rhino, and elephant were all found in Long Hole Cave.
Given their proximity, and they were occupied around the same time, could this have been where the Red "Lady" of Paviland lived before he was ceremonially buried in another cave nearby?
A further thought on the 'Red Lady of Paviland'. These remains are of particular scientific and archeological interest. They were discovered in South Wales near Swansea, on it would be great to see them on display as part of the local heritage.
Indeed, you can see them today in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
The 'Red Lady' isn't #YmaOHyd - but he/she bloody well should be!
As @DafSmith points out, the 'Red lady of Paviland' was discovered in a cave on the Gower coast, in fact just round the corner from where I took the pictures of punk sheep.
It is an exposed location, and the sheep there are a tough and hardy bunch.
Nobody knows what happened to the 'Red Lady', but I suspect it was the sheep wot done him in.
In another amazing first, Cymru boasts the oldest evidence of modern human settlement!
Near Rhossili, archaeologists found the oldest ceremonial burial in Western Europe.
The individual became known as the Red Lady of Paviland, due to the red ochre pigment used in the burial.
Modern analysis shows that it is actually the body of a young male.
Why this ceremony? What kind of beliefs did he and his family have?
As I have a little time to spare today, I'll be resuming my #WelshHistoryThread this evening.
Thanks for all the support so far with it. The replies and boosts are encouraging and appreciated ๐
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