The 10,000-Year-Old Man Found In A British Cave — And The DNA Test That Changed What Scientists Thought Early Europeans Looked Like
Cheddar Man’s petrous bone was intact.
The cool, stable limestone environment of Gough’s Cave had provided exceptional preservation conditions.
And the UCL/NHM team that approached the project in 2017 had access to the most sophisticated ancient DNA analysis methods available.
They drilled a two-millimeter hole into the skull to extract bone powder from the inner ear region.
The amount of material they needed was tiny — just a few milligrams of bone.
The DNA within that powder was the result of ten thousand years of preservation, and it was, by the standards of ancient DNA work, unusually well-preserved.
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