The 10,000-Year-Old Man Found In A British Cave — And The DNA Test That Changed What Scientists Thought Early Europeans Looked Like
This paradox — that the shift to agriculture, which supported larger populations, also made those populations less healthy in various measurable ways — is one of the more counterintuitive findings of paleopathology.
Cheddar Man’s healthy teeth are part of the evidence for this paradox.
The Question Of Language
Cheddar Man could speak.
The capacity for language is universal in anatomically modern humans, present in all populations everywhere since at least 100,000 years ago.
His brain was the same size and organization as any modern human brain.
His vocal anatomy was the same.
But what language did he speak?
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