Cheddar Man
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Cheddar Man is a human male skeleton found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England. The skeletal remains date to around the mid-to-late 9th millennium BC, corresponding to the Mesolithic p
Cheddar man skull
The upper body of the Cheddar Man
Reconstructed head of the Cheddar Man based on the shape of his skull and DNA analysis, shown at the Natural History Museum in London (2019)
Cheddar Man's skeleton viewed from the side
Western hunter-gatherer
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In archaeogenetics, western hunter-gatherer is a distinct ancestral component of modern Europeans, representing descent from a population of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers present across much of Western
Cheddar Man
…are kept by London's Natural History Museum, in the Human Evolution gallery. Analysis of his nuclear DNA indicates that he was a typical member of the Western European hunter-gatherer population at the time, with a most likely phenotype of blue-green eyes, dark brown or black hair, and dark or dark-to-black skin, with no genetic…
The transition from Magdalenian Goyet ancestry (green , Goyet Q2) to Western Hunter Gatherer (WHG) Villabruna ancestry (orange ) in European sites, according to timeline and climate evolution.
The rock shelter where the skeleton of the Loschbour man (c. 8,000 BP) was found
A simplified model for the demographic history of Europeans during the Neolithic period and the Neolithic Revolution which introduced agriculture.