Europeans

When British archaeologists completed radiocarbon analysis of a skeleton that came to be known as Cheddar Man, they estimated his age at 10,000 years. They paused, amazed, and repeated the dating procedure. The almost complete skeleton was the oldest Homo sapiens skeleton ever found in Britain. Extensive research into ancient DNA extracted from the skeleton has been integral for scientists who are building a DNA portrait of Cheddar Man to describe his life in Mesolithic Britain. One of their biggest surprises was the appearance of the earliest modern human inhabitants of Britain. Cheddar Man was quite different from the traditional image of the British people. Cheddar Man’s DNA contained genetic markers for skin pigmentation that are usually associated with sub-Saharan