Exploring ancient burials through the 'Red Lady of Paviland', one of the oldest skeletons found in Britain, which dates back 30,000 years.

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The Red Lady of Paviland is one of the oldest skeletons found in Britain, dating to around 30,000 years ago. The fossil hunter who found her in Goat Hole Cave thought she was a woman as she was wearing a shell necklace, but it turned out to be a healthy man who ate a lot of fish. The skeleton was surrounded by around 4000 artifacts which gives us a real insight into the life and times of higher status hunter-gatherers in the Old Stone Age. Some questions still remain, such as why was the skeleton covered in red ochre on burial?

This clip is from the BBC series Ancient Voices. In a series of short films, archaeologist Raksha Dave explores the amazing places, monuments and archaeological finds left behind from prehistoric Britain to build a picture of what it must have been like living in the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.

To bring prehistory alive and show how the ancient people of Britain shaped where we live now, Raksha makes a razor-sharp flint tool, helps to cast a bronze axe and, using only a red deer antler, mines iron ore in an ancient mine. She visits the exceptional Stone Age burial at Paviland, explores Stonehenge - where, nearby, the biggest discovery of prehistoric gold was unearthed - and enters the Secret Forest, home to the only known prehistoric open-cast iron mines in the world. Raksha also has a chance to help out with daubing a replica Neolithic home, tries on Bronze Age clothes and feasts on Iron Age food.

Presented by Raksha Dave, field archaeologist on Channel 4's Time Team, with a wealth of knowledge about the world before history was documented in Britain, the films are specifically aimed at children of Key Stage 2 age for BBC Learning Zone.

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Teaching History?

This clip could be used to explore the world of archaeology and the use of artifacts. You could ask the questions: What can we tell about the Old Stone Age from a burial? What can’t we tell? What else might we want to know? Where might we find out? How much of what we know is fact and how much is opinion? Children could draw their own version of the animals in the Stone Age, such as a massive woolly mammoth or a supersized lion. They could write imaginary stories about the life of the Red Lady of Paviland.

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