"Adrian Targett visited the home of a close relative yesterday. He had to put on Wellington boots because the floor is muddy. The relative was not in. Hardly surprising: he died 9,000 years ago."

#Ancestry #CheddarMan #Cheddar #NoNotCheese

The family link that reaches back 300 generations to a Cheddar cave | The Independent https://archive.vn/bpd51

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and oh yeah - he was dark skinned
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How Cheddar Man shatters accepted views of immigration

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/02/09/how-cheddar-man-shatters-accepted-views-of-immigration.html

#goughscave1 #cheddarman #physicalanthropology #race #caucasoid #skincolor

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161867-ancient-dark-skinned-briton-cheddar-man-find-may-not-be-true/

The first person to inhibit England was a black person. You can always quote this scientific research as credible evidence to fight the racists. #cheddarman, #blacklivesmatter

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161867-ancient-dark-skinned-briton-cheddar-man-find-may-not-be-true/

The first person to inhabit England was a black person. You can always quote this scientific research as credible evidence to fight the racists. #cheddarman, #blacklivesmatter

I thought it might be useful to look at Cheddar Man as it appears so often in #archaeological groups and is like catnip for the far right & white supremacists.

Cheddar man was found in Gough’s Cave, #Somerset in 1903 & dates to the #Mesolithic, some 10,000 years ago. Advances in #aDNA meant his skeleton was tested. There was also a bust being made for a TV prog, which used standard techniques to reconstruct his profile + physical features.

Thread.

#Archaeology #Prehistory #CheddarMan

There’s a family living in Cheddar that’s directly descended from him, about 9,000 years later.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/ancient-face-cheddar-man-reconstructed-dna-spd

#cheddarman #WHG

#CheddarMan
First modern Britons had ‘dark to black’ skin, Cheddar Man DNA analysis reveals
The genome of Cheddar Man, who lived 10,000 years ago, suggests that he had blue eyes, dark skin and dark curly hair
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/first-modern-britons-dark-black-skin-cheddar-man-dna-analysis-reveals?CMP=twt_gu
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