Guest wrote:Trapper John wrote:Guest wrote:calitom wrote:Guest wrote:The first modern Briton had “dark to black” skin, groundbreaking new analysis of his 10,000-year-old remains has revealed.
Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, known as Cheddar Man, was unearthed more than a century ago in Gough’s Cave in Somerset.
But an unprecedented examination of his DNA, along with a facial reconstruction of the fossil, shows the young man would have had a darker complexion than previously thought, along with blue eyes and dark, curly hair.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... e=Facebook Wonder what the racists will make of this!
if they dug him up out of the dirt after thousands of years of course his skin would be dark. Duhh.
You didn't read the article did you, and you think a body would have skin on it after thousands of years you muppet.
6000 year old + bodies turn up quite often in archeological terms, complete with skin, hair, the contents of their last meal in their stomachs and sometimes even the clothes on their backs.
Probably one of the most famous:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tziBog bodies in general - from 8000 years BC - 2000 years BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body