Extraordinary.....

[jackthehat]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5358699/First-Brit-dark-skinned-blue-eyed.html

Isn't it fascinating just what modern scientific breakthroughs can tell us about our long dead ancestors?

[Zacs-Master]

Classic case of someone being offended on someone else’s behalf, even though that someone doesn't exist, Naomi.

[naomi24]

Yep.

[Spicerack]

When forensic scientists have to reconstruct the features of recent murder victims they always admit there's a lot of artistic licence involved. 10,000 year old skull, they know exactly what he looked like, lol.
Lighten up, bigbrain. No-one likes a snitch.

[Mamyalynne]

Bainbrig.

[webbo3]

Dark skin and blue eyes, could be Greek, Mediterranean, Spanish, and that hair doesn’t look African to me.

[cassa333]

Modern science is a wonder. We can look back and 'see' ou selves as we once were.

Here's to hoping we can use science to move forwards.

[Mamyalynne]

The first word that popped into my head when I saw the reconstruction was 'Aztec'.

[yogi-bear]

Thanks JTH for posting this....very interesting read and I enjoy documentaries about these types of topics.
Cheers, Mamya, for the heads up on when the documentary on CH4 is airing....noted and will record it.( I have blue eyes too, and dark skin, but only from a tan after spending the last 12 days in Italy and Malta) :-)

[Old_Geezer]

With all the DNA and latest techniques there's still just a 76% chance that Cheddar Man was ‘dark to black’ by today's standards. Etc.. Plenty of scope for artist's impression.

[anneasquith]

I think he looks a happy wee man ( even if he can't digest milk ) :-)

[Mamyalynne]

He'd be sorted wi some Bru Anne.

[anneasquith]

He would :-)

[Spicerack]

If I believed any of this old tosh, I'd be terribly disappointed.
Like all good people I hoped my coffee coloured descendants would sit around the eco-friendly campfire, holding hands and singing Kumbaya with all the other coffee coloured children.
Turns out we're all going to turn into white people, boo hoo hoo.

[Mamyalynne]

Tissue?

[ichkeria]

Panic in the ranks!
It’s great to see the science topics generating such an enthusiastic response :-)

[bainbrig]

If you could only bottle the ignorance shown in these columns...

[Spicerack]

What. What could you do?
Care to give us an example of our ignorance from that mighty big brain you have?

[bainbrig]

What could you do?

Bury it, so that future generations could dig it up and be gobsmacked at how incredibly boneheaded their ancestors were.

[Peter Pedant]

// Incidentally how do they know that he was the first Brit, there may be earlier ones, yet undiscovered//
or discovered

he is the first-ish Brit since the retreat of the glaciers of the last Ice Age
well were there any before the last ice age ?
yup seems so - I think the Red Woman was one

Native American Indians show DNA mixing from 10 000 y ago - possibly the europeans hand pulled canoes allong the ice edge of a glacier in the atlantic
but also very rarely from 50 000 y ago which would be before the last ice age

[Spicerack]

That 99 was getting on my nerves.