Cheddar Man: Mesolithic Britain's Blue-Eyed Boy

A Mesolithic skeleton was discovered in 1903 at Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset and this has helped Museum scientists paint a portrait of one of the oldest modern humans in Britain.This skeleton was nicknamed Cheddar Man. Cheddar Man lived around 10,000 years ago and is the oldest almost complete skeleton of our species, Homo sapiens, ever found in Britain.
This discovery changed a lot of what scientists thought they knew. A whole lot of study was done and a cutting-edge scientific analysis shows that a Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark brown skin and blue eyes.Researchers from London's Natural History Museum extracted DNA from Cheddar Man, A University College London team analyzed the genome, and the results were used for a facial reconstruction.
Selina Brace, who worked closely on Cheddar Man, explains that the cool conditions in Gough’s Cave along with the presence of natural mineral deposits helped preserve his DNA.The biggest surprise, perhaps, is that some of the earliest modern human inhabitants of Britain may not have looked the way you might expect.
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