THE oldest known buried human remains in Britain date back 29,000 years - 4,000 years more than first thought - scientists from Oxford University have discovered.
The Red Lady skeleton, actually that of a young man but named because of the colour of the ochre covering the bones, is kept at the university's Museum of Natural History.
However, new techniques in dating have found the remains are much older.
The discovery has led to the theory that human burial could have originated in western Europe and perhaps Britain.
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