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 Mesolithic people who moved into Britain as the ice retreated were not the same as the people who had lived there before — or rather, the populations that had survived in the European south during the glacial maximum were moving north as the ice permitted.
They were hunter-gatherers with a highly sophisticated toolkit: small blades called microliths that could be hafted into arrows and spears, equipment for fishing and fowling, the full range of knowledge required to exploit the productive environments of the postglacial north.
Among these people, or among those who came slightly later in the Mesolithic occupation of Britain, was the individual who would eventually be found in Gough’s Cave and named Cheddar Man.
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