The Cheddar Man lived during the Mesolithic Era, a time period defined by the use of small chipped stone tools. “Cheddar Man belonged to a group of people who were mainly hunter gatherers,” Dr.

The good preservation of the DNA we retrieved from Cheddar Man is unusual, but not unexpected. We were able to extract enough information from Cheddar Man’s DNA to run it through a forensic tool that ...

Researchers from London's Natural History Museum extracted DNA from Cheddar Man, Britain's oldest complete skeleton, which was discovered in 1903. A University College London team analysed the ...