When forensic scientists have to reconstruct the features of recent murder victims they always admit there's a lot of artistic licence involved. 10,000 year old skull, they know exactly what he looked like, lol.
Lighten up, bigbrain. No-one likes a snitch.
Thanks JTH for posting this....very interesting read and I enjoy documentaries about these types of topics.
Cheers, Mamya, for the heads up on when the documentary on CH4 is airing....noted and will record it.( I have blue eyes too, and dark skin, but only from a tan after spending the last 12 days in Italy and Malta) :-)
With all the DNA and latest techniques there's still just a 76% chance that Cheddar Man was ‘dark to black’ by today's standards. Etc.. Plenty of scope for artist's impression.
If I believed any of this old tosh, I'd be terribly disappointed.
Like all good people I hoped my coffee coloured descendants would sit around the eco-friendly campfire, holding hands and singing Kumbaya with all the other coffee coloured children.
Turns out we're all going to turn into white people, boo hoo hoo.
// Incidentally how do they know that he was the first Brit, there may be earlier ones, yet undiscovered//
or discovered
he is the first-ish Brit since the retreat of the glaciers of the last Ice Age
well were there any before the last ice age ?
yup seems so - I think the Red Woman was one
Native American Indians show DNA mixing from 10 000 y ago - possibly the europeans hand pulled canoes allong the ice edge of a glacier in the atlantic
but also very rarely from 50 000 y ago which would be before the last ice age