The cave is still cool and stable.

The evidence is waiting.

The story of Cheddar Man is not finished.

It is simply at the point where the technology of the early twenty-first century has taken it so far, and has found enough to change how we see the deep past, and has opened enough new questions to keep archaeologists and geneticists occupied for the next century.

The dark-skinned, blue-eyed young man from the limestone cave has been giving his secrets up slowly — one century of study, one analytical method, one genome at a time.

There are more secrets to give.