[Verginius Rufus]

Jean Manco has something to say about Cheddar Man. She points out that U5 is very widespread in Europe so that the local people in Cheddar Gorge, England, who have the U5 mtDNA were not necessarily descendants of Cheddar Man. Of course they could not have inherited their mtDNA from him since he was a male.

Bryan Sykes tested 20 people in Cheddar Gorge and got two exact matches with Cheddar Man and one with a single mutation difference. Since the two exact matches were children they focused on the near-match, the teacher Adrian Targett.

Manco says that a modern-day Briton with U5 mtDNA could have a Saxon or Viking or Norman matrilineal ancestor. "Indeed it seems likely that most U5 in Britain today descends from Copper Age arrivals at the earliest."

(The Copper Age is the period just before the Bronze Age--much later than Cheddar Man who lived about 7000 B.C.)

[blam]

Yup. Thanks.

Posted in 1997:

Descendant Of Stone Age Skeleton Found (Cheddar Man - 9,000 Years Old)

[blam]

See my post #51 about the 'V' haplogroup. The U5a haplogroup has a large presence amoungst the Sami's too.

Both are really old haplogroups.