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The Red Lady of Paviland is one of the oldest skeletons found in Britain, dating from 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 artefacts 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?’