The 10,000-Year-Old Man Found In A British Cave — And The DNA Test That Changed What Scientists Thought Early Europeans Looked Like
The population-level finding — that Western Hunter-Gatherer Europeans generally had dark skin with light eyes — was actually not new.
Earlier ancient DNA analyses of WHG individuals in Spain, Hungary, and elsewhere had already shown this pattern.
What made the Cheddar Man study different was the combination of factors: the age and completeness of the specimen, the quality of the genetic analysis, and the production of the physical facial reconstruction that made the finding visual and immediate rather than abstract.
Cheddar Man As The Oldest Complete British Genome
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