The First Briton, known as Cheddar Man, was dark-skinned new evidence reveals

Tiverton Mid Devon Gazette Wednesday, 7 February 2018 ()
DNA tests show that the earliest Homo sapien people - whose bones have been found in caves in Somerset and Devon - had darker skin than experts once thought.
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 The first modern Briton had "dark to black" skin, new research suggests. Britain's oldest complete skeleton, who lived around 300 generations ago and is known as Cheddar Man, was discovered more than a century ago in Gough's Cave in Somerset. Dr Tom Booth, an archaeologist at the Natural History...