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Cheddar Man on Display at the Natural History Museum, London | Virtual Museum Walk
Cheddar Man Cheddar Man was one of the first modern humans in Britain, and he arrived in Britain shortly after the warm period began. So sometime after the last Ice age – which ended 11,700 years ago What is so remarkable about Cheddar Man, who was Mesolithic in Origin is that his bones are the most complete and oldest found here in England and he had black skin and blue eyes. He was born almost 300 generations ago, Cheddar Man died in his 20’s and is about 9,000 years old. Cheddar Man The people who lived in Britain 300 generations ago were black and they belong to a hunter gatherer group known to history as the Mesolithic, they were an early group of Western Europeans – DNA analysis on this complete skeleton has shown that he had dark to black skin and blue eyes – Which was typical of that Western European Population. Cheddar man was found in Gough’s Cave in Cheddar gorge, Somerset, England and as mentioned earlier his skeletal remains date from the Mesolithic. His remains were excavated in 1903 and have been kept by London’s Natural History Museum. They are today on display in their Human Evolution gallery, which is a must see for anyone visiting the museum. In 2018, A DNA analysis of Cheddar man was conducted by a team of scientists at the Natural History Museum in London. The DNA was extracted from the petrous part of the temporal bone. Which is a pyramid shape and wedged at the base of the skull. On analysis of this remarkable skeleton he was found to have blue or perhaps green eyes, was lactose intolerant, had dark curly hair and dark brown – to black skin. His DNA makes up about 10%, on average, of the ancestry of Britons without a recent family history of immigration. Many people have shown that they share DNA with Cheddar man a His DNA is still available for comparison via gedmatch – and Cheddar man’s Gedmatch genesis kit number is – NW6414429
- Published: 13 September 2021
- Location: London, England
- Duration: 6:51
- Photography – Stephen Robert Kuta / Yhana Kuta
- Written by – Stephen Robert Kuta
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Cheddar Man Cheddar Man was one of the first modern humans in Britain, and he arrived in Britain shortly after the warm period began. So sometime after the last Ice age – which ended 11,700 years ago What is so remarkable about Cheddar Man, who was Mesolithic in Origin is that his bones are the most complete and oldest found here in England and he had black skin and blue eyes. He was born almost 300 generations ago, Cheddar Man died in his 20’s and is about 9,000 years old. Cheddar Man The people who lived in Britain 300 generations ago were black and they belong to a hunter gatherer group known to history as the Mesolithic, they were an early group of Western Europeans – DNA analysis on this complete skeleton has shown that he had dark to black skin and blue eyes – Which was typical of that Western European Population. Cheddar man was found in Gough’s Cave in Cheddar gorge, Somerset, England and as mentioned earlier his skeletal remains date from the Mesolithic. His remains were excavated in 1903 and have been kept by London’s Natural History Museum. They are today on display in their Human Evolution gallery, which is a must see for anyone visiting the museum. In 2018, A DNA analysis of Cheddar man was conducted by a team of scientists at the Natural History Museum in London. The DNA was extracted from the petrous part of the temporal bone. Which is a pyramid shape and wedged at the base of the skull. On analysis of this remarkable skeleton he was found to have blue or perhaps green eyes, was lactose intolerant, had dark curly hair and dark brown – to black skin. His DNA makes up about 10%, on average, of the ancestry of Britons without a recent family history of immigration. Many people have shown that they share DNA with Cheddar man a His DNA is still available for comparison via gedmatch – and Cheddar man’s Gedmatch genesis kit number is – NW6414429
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