The 10,000-Year-Old Man Found In A British Cave — And The DNA Test That Changed What Scientists Thought Early Europeans Looked Like
This absence is itself historically informative.
It confirms that at the time Cheddar Man was alive — roughly 10,000 years ago — Britain had not yet been reached by the Neolithic farmers from Anatolia.
The farming transition in Britain began around 6,000 years ago, meaning that Cheddar Man lived approximately 4,000 years before the transformation of British society that would eventually, through the mixing of populations, produce the ancestors of modern British people.
The Connection To Living Britons
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