Descendant Of Stone Age Skeleton Found (Cheddar Man - 9,000 Years Old)
"In an astonishing piece of detective work, they matched mitochondrial DNA material extracted from the tooth cavity of Britain's oldest complete skeleton with that of a 42-year-old history teacher, Adrian Targett. The genetic material showed without doubt that Targett is a direct descendant through his mother's line of the skeleton known as Cheddar Man, which was found in 1903 in caves in Cheddar Gorge in southwest England."
"It is extraordinary that the DNA survives at all, but we were able to extract it and sequence it," said Bryan Sykes of Oxford University's Institute of Molecular Medicine. "They would have shared a common ancestor about 10,000 years ago, so they are related."
"Targett lives about a kilometer from the caves where Cheddar Man was found. Previous tests have shown that Cheddar Man suffered a violent death at the age of about 23 in 7150 B.C."
Targett today lives less than a mile from where his mother's relatives lived 9,000 years ago. (...and, my ex-wife accused me of never wanting to go anywhere, lol)
BTW, there is a 26,000 year old Cheddar Man too but, I can't find any study done on him.