Spatula made from horse bone, found with the ‘Red Lady’. 30000 BCE.
The ‘Red Lady’ is one of the oldest burials of a modern human in Europe. 32,000 years ago a young man in his twenties was given a rich burial. At first he was thought to be female as shell beads and ivory rings found in the grave might have been worn as ornaments or sewn to his clothing. There were also broken ivory rods placed around his body. His remains are housed in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
