"Red Lady of Paviland"

In January 1823, William Buckland discovered in Goat's Hole, one of the Paviland Caves on the Gower, one side of a human adult skeleton, stained with red ochre and accompanied by seashell necklaces which he incorrectly assumed was a female and became known as the"Red Lady of Paviland".
Buckland who was Professor of Geology at Oxford Univerity and a christian also underestimated the dating of the find as he believed that no human remains could be dated earlier than the bible's great flood. However, further examinations have shown that the "Red Lady" was in fact a male and at 24,000, the oldest known ceremonial burial in Western Europe.