Xiongnu, otherwise known as the Huns, travelled far and wide. It doesn’t surprise me they shared DNA with Finno-Ugrian peoples. But Cheddar Man, that’s a little more surprising.
And I don’t think Westerners knew much about China in the first century either. Their writings certainly don’t reflect much knowledge of the far east. Trade goods don’t mean much. They were carried by intermediaries.
In 1903, skeletal remains were found in a cave in Cheddar, England. The remains of a 23 year-old man, who was killed by a blow to the face, were discovered to be at least 9,000 years old. Ninety-four years after the discovery of "Cheddar Man", scientists were able to extract mitochondrial DNA from his tooth cavity. Mitosearch: 7MRU2
Name Haplo mtDNA Sequence
Cheddar Man U5a 16192T, 16270T