The 10,000-Year-Old Man Found In A British Cave — And The DNA Test That Changed What Scientists Thought Early Europeans Looked Like
Whether this approach has been applied to Cheddar Man’s teeth is not fully established in the publicly available literature.
The Three-Part Story Of European Ancestry
The Cheddar Man finding fits into what geneticists have described as the three-way admixture story of European ancestry — the finding that modern Europeans are the product of three major source populations, each of which contributed distinct genetic components.
The first component is the Western Hunter-Gatherer ancestry, represented by Cheddar Man and his contemporaries.
This component is the oldest continuous European ancestry, representing the postglacial hunter-gatherer populations that inhabited western and central Europe.
In modern white British people, this component represents approximately ten percent of ancestry.