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First Modern Britons Had 'Dark To Black' Skin, Cheddar Man DNA Analysis Reveals
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 2-7-2018

Posted on 02/06/2018 11:31:05 PM PST by blam

The first modern Britons, who lived about 10,000 years ago, had “dark to black” skin, a groundbreaking DNA analysis of Britain’s oldest complete skeleton has revealed.

The fossil, known as Cheddar Man, was unearthed more than a century ago in Gough’s Cave in Somerset. Intense speculation has built up around Cheddar Man’s origins and appearance because he lived shortly after the first settlers crossed from continental Europe to Britain at the end of the last ice age. People of white British ancestry alive today are descendants of this population.

It was initially assumed that Cheddar Man had pale skin and fair hair, but his DNA paints a different picture, strongly suggesting he had blue eyes, a very dark brown to black complexion and dark curly hair.

The discovery shows that the genes for lighter skin became widespread in European populations far later than originally thought – and that skin colour was not always a proxy for geographic origin in the way it is often seen to be today.

Tom Booth, an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum who worked on the project, said: “It really shows up that these imaginary racial categories that we have are really very modern constructions, or very recent constructions, that really are not applicable to the past at all.”

Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist at University College London and another member of the project’s team, agreed, saying the connection often drawn between Britishness and whiteness was “not an immutable truth. It has always changed and will change”.

The findings were revealed ahead of a Channel 4 documentary, which tracked the ancient DNA project at the Natural History Museum in London as well as creating a new forensic reconstruction of Cheddar Man’s head.

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(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


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To: nickcarraway

Many Americans in the early 1800s believed the Mandan Indians were descended from Welsh explorers led by Prince Madoc around 1170 AD, as so many of them were so light skinned.


101 posted on 02/07/2018 7:33:45 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Sirius Lee

I have seen them, starting when I was around 10.

Pretty sure I’ve never been “taken”.
I have been in extremely deep trance several times
and nothing like that ever surfaced.

This despite some “missing time” which evidently had more
to do with the Green Fairy in the Absinthe rather than
the Green Men in the Saucer.


102 posted on 02/07/2018 7:34:20 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Salamander
"Walk-ins Welcome?"


103 posted on 02/07/2018 7:41:56 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: blam
I've even got the freckles.

Most of the redheads in my area have brown or blue eyes.

Green is the oddity.

Mine come from, oddly enough, the Welsh part of the family.

My second and third cousins look like me and I don't particularly look like my parents, who were tall, blue eyed, fair skinned blondes to my short, tawny red & green combo.

Another oddity...I tried to learn Gaelic but the glottal stops were an impediment, as is the rhotic R.

So I tried Welsh.

Easy. I'm apparently P Celtic, not Q. :)

104 posted on 02/07/2018 7:42:07 AM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: shibumi

I knew that was coming.

:D

I have a shirt that says The Walken Dead with Chris, zombified.


105 posted on 02/07/2018 7:43:16 AM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: shibumi

I waved at whomever was piloting the black triangle that floated gracefully above my back yard.


106 posted on 02/07/2018 7:44:41 AM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; shibumi

Barry Fell ping


107 posted on 02/07/2018 7:45:33 AM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: buffyt
I have Blue eyes. My gran#ma and her mom were Cherokee with blue eyes.

Just like Elizabeth Warren.

108 posted on 02/07/2018 7:51:12 AM PST by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: buffyt

http://www.equinox-project.com/DRFEL.HTM


109 posted on 02/07/2018 7:54:36 AM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: blam
Also, I've read that blue eyes in humans came from one mutation event and that everyone with blue eyes can trace their DNA back to that single event. I have bright blue eyes.

Hi! I'm your long-lost distant cousin!

110 posted on 02/07/2018 7:59:12 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"Many Americans in the early 1800s believed the Mandan Indians were descended from Welsh explorers led by Prince Madoc around 1170 AD, as so many of them were so light skinned."

I've read that Thomas Jefferson told Lewis and Clark to not mention any Welsh speaking, light skinned Indians in their report. His fear was that some European power may use that fact as an excuse to claim western portions of what would eventually become the USA. So...the official position of the US government was/is to deny anything Welsh in early America.

We used to have a bronze plaque at Ft Morgan that commerated Prince Madoc's arrival in America in 1170 AD. It was blown down in hurricane Fredric in 1979. It was put into storage and never re-installed.

Alabama Fights To Reinstate Plaque Celebrating Welsh ‘Columbus’

Local Legend Says Prince Madoc of Wales Discovered America In The Year 1170.

"Were There Welshmen on the Shores of Mobile Bay 300 Years Before Columbus "Discovered" America?"


111 posted on 02/07/2018 8:35:54 AM PST by blam
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To: Darksheare

Evidence suggests,” proves nothing. Politically correct science is synonymous with fake science.


112 posted on 02/07/2018 8:39:38 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: Darksheare

Maybe a bit more on the dark tan side, the image reminds me of that hilarious blackface pancake makeup they put on Obama a few times to emphasize his “blackness” during photo ops.


yup


113 posted on 02/07/2018 8:42:06 AM PST by samtheman (We dont need no stinking summaries. Release unedited FISA documents.)
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To: Salamander
"I'm apparently P Celtic, not Q. :) "

Ahem. Do you 'mind you P's & Q's'?
And, do you know what that is all about.

BTW, the picture you posted of a Neanderthal boy is claimed to be that of a Modern Human/Neanderthal mix.

The Neanderthal Theory
(Lots and lots of info here.)

114 posted on 02/07/2018 8:42:43 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

And we know he wasn’t just visiting Britain how?


115 posted on 02/07/2018 8:44:06 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: zeugma

Allegedly grown men who whine about “how little” they are paid to do it.
And then they kneel to show support for a “movement” born of fabrication.
That poster insisted that boycotting the NFL for supporting BLM somehow was supporting BLM.


116 posted on 02/07/2018 8:44:51 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: blam

Just keep that Grant Money flowing....cuz that’s what it’s really all about.


117 posted on 02/07/2018 8:45:46 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: shibumi; Salamander

“Alien abductees”
Hey, not my fault and nobody can prove that.
;-)


118 posted on 02/07/2018 8:46:09 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Sacajaweau
"And we know he wasn’t just visiting Britain how?"

Read the article in post #1. His descendents are still there.

119 posted on 02/07/2018 8:49:40 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

My father had red hair and blue eyes, my mother was black Irish Very dark auburn hair, dark brown eyes, and dusky skin.


120 posted on 02/07/2018 8:52:49 AM PST by Little Bill (VN 65 - 68)
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