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Daf Smith 4 
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Welshman living in Lloegr. #WelshIndependence #YesCymru #DysguCymraeg
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?
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?
My cat lay staring o'er the fields yonder,
His tiny mind did whir and wander
If the blackbirds were singing to him for a sec,
So he assumed loaf-position and replied "ek-ek-ek".
His tiny mind did whir and wander
If the blackbirds were singing to him for a sec,
So he assumed loaf-position and replied "ek-ek-ek".
Just seen #BlackCatSaturday is trending. So here is my entry:
Bailey, as mentioned in my pinned #introduction
Bailey, as mentioned in my pinned #introduction
In a cave near Talacharn (Laugharne), archaeologists found bones and teeth from hyenas, woolly rhinoceros and mammoths.
In the same cave, known as Coygan Cave, they also found hand axes made and used by Neanderthals around 35,000 years ago.
Mammoths, rhinoceros and hyenas in Cymru?!
Sadly, the cave was destroyed by quarrying. But the fantastic finds are preserved at the National Museum of Wales.
Can't believe I forgot about our Welsh dinosaur friends!
All dinosaurs discovered in Wales are found in the Vale of Glamorgan. The rocks in the rest of the country are OLDER THAN DINOSAURS!
Will Hayward wrote a great article in 2018. Link below.
These dinos are between 200 and 250 million years old, and new species and fossils are still being found today!
Have you ever found a fossil anywhere?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/dinosaurs-found-wales-mapped-14533246
The furthest north-westerly point of Neanderthal range is known to be Wales!
Part of a Neanderthal jaw-bone and 2 teeth of an 11-year-old boy were found in Bontnewydd Palaeolithic Site, with teeth from at least 4 other Neanderthals.
The presence of a wolf was discovered in the same cave at around the same time.
No way of knowing for sure, but wouldn't it be lovely to imagine a boy and his dog living in the cave together?