The 10,000-Year-Old Man Found In A British Cave — And The DNA Test That Changed What Scientists Thought Early Europeans Looked Like
And the limestone, patient and indifferent, preserved what it could.
The DNA told the rest.
The story it told is still changing how we see the deep past of this island, and the deep past of a continent, and the deep past of ourselves.
That is what the ten-thousand-year-old man from Gough’s Cave has to teach us.
He has more to teach still.
The limestone is patient.
The science continues.
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