The 10,000-Year-Old Man Found In A British Cave — And The DNA Test That Changed What Scientists Thought Early Europeans Looked Like
It is, in a specific way, the closest thing to time travel that science currently offers.
The Limestone Holds The Secret Still
There is more in the cave than has been found.
There is more in the cave than has been analyzed.
There is more in the cave than can currently be recovered with the methods that exist.
The cool, alkaline, stable environment of Gough’s Cave has been preserving things for a very long time, and the full extent of what it preserves is not known.
Ancient DNA researchers have established that the petrous bone and dense tooth enamel can hold readable genetic material under these conditions for many thousands of years.
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