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Red Lady cave burial reveals Stone Age secrets (newscientist.com)
22 points by diodorus on March 20, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



According to various news and a citation on Wiki, "she" is actually a male. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lady_of_Paviland


The article is about a skeleton in Spain, not Wales.


Hm. Scratches on the stone don't necessarily mean its a 'headstone'. It could have been a tool, used to sharpen sticks or polish points. The cave was inhabited, and the stone's lines took a long time to scratch. Anyway the assertion that the 'v's created by intersecting lines indicate 'female' is a lame reach.


Of course, but that is a very common interpretation of V-shaped marks in cave art [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave#Paintings


You do realize that is a circular argument?




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