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Cheddar Man. Died. c. 8300 BC [1] now Cheddar, England, United Kingdom. Body discovered. 1903. Cheddar Man is a human male skeleton found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England. The skeletal remains date to around the mid-to-late 9th millennium BC, corresponding to the Mesolithic period, and it appears that he died a violent death.
Cheddar Gorge. Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be 9,000 years old, was found in 1903. [1] Older remains from the Upper Late Palaeolithic era (12,000 ...
England. Somerset. 51°16′44″N 2°46′41″W / 51.279°N 2.778°W / 51.279; -2.778. Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Wells, 11 miles (18 km) south-east of Weston-super-Mare and 18 miles (29 km ...
Registry. Mendip Cave Registry [1] Gough's Cave (/ ɡɒf / GOF) is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The cave is 115 m (377 ft) deep and is 3.405 km (2.12 mi) long, [2] and contains a variety of large chambers and rock formations. It contains the Cheddar Yeo, the largest underground river system in ...
In archaeogenetics, western hunter-gatherer (WHG, also known as west European hunter-gatherer, western European hunter-gatherer or Oberkassel cluster) (c. 15,000~5,000 BP) is a distinct ancestral component of modern Europeans, representing descent from a population of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who scattered over western, southern and central Europe, from the British Isles in the west to the ...
Cheddar cheese. Cheddar cheese (or simply cheddar) is a natural cheese that is relatively hard, off-white (or orange if colourings such as annatto are added), and sometimes sharp-tasting. It originates from the English village of Cheddar in Somerset, South West England. [1]
Wookey Hole Caves (/ ˈwʊki /) are a series of limestone caverns, a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The River Axe flows through the cave. [3] It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for both biological and geological reasons. [4]
English: Cheddar Man, National History Museum, London 7Artisans manual lens 35mm F1.2 wide open, ambient light. Natural History Museum, London. This charming reconstruction is based on hard DNA evidence (dark hair, brown skin, blue eyes). Cheddar Man represents the first wave of modern man (homo sapiens) colonising Britain after the Ice Ages.