- A joint project between Britain’s Natural History Museum and University College London has revealed that today’s’ white English man ‘s modern ancestress had a dark skin.
- DNA analysis of the remains of a man, called ‘Cheddar Man’ who lived 10,000 years ago revealed that the first modern Briton had dark skin and blue eyes.
- The skeleton came to be known as “Cheddar Man” after the area in southwest England where the remains were found in 1903.
- Researchers drilled a 2mm hole into the skull and extracted bone powder for analysis and then the surprise emerged. Till now Cheddar Man, had been portrayed as having brown eyes and light skin.
- The findings of the analysis suggest that lighter pigmentation being a feature of populations of northern Europe is more recent than previously thought.
