Cheddar Man: DNA shows early Britons had dark skin

[mykey]

With a name like "Cheddar Man" this had to be a Nikka!!




Cacs are gonna lose their flippin' mind over this one.

Cheddar Man: DNA shows early Briton had dark skin

First modern Britons had 'dark to black' skin, Cheddar Man DNA analysis reveals

Britain's Dark-Skinned, Blue-Eyed Ancestor Explained

The first modern Britons, who lived about 10,000 years ago, had “dark to black” skin, a groundbreaking DNA analysis of Britain’s oldest complete skeleton has revealed.

The fossil, known as Cheddar Man, was unearthed at Gough's cave in Somerset.

 

[Neuromancer]

bump

 

[Lesfilles]

Looks like a dravidian.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Breh got a perm

 

[Somewhere For Me]

He's probably genetically closer to White Euros as by that time he was far removed from Africa and the Euro haplogroups had developed.

 

[Ish Gibor]

Am I the only one who sees a resemblance?

 

[DrBanneker]

Cacs are gonna lose their flippin' mind over this one.

Nah, prob not. Cheddar Man et. al. were hunter gatherers in Europe and got wiped out/assimilated by the agriculturalists that arrived from Turkey and then they got moved over by the Celts. They weren't White folks.

 

[Ish Gibor]

Nah, prob not. Cheddar Man et. al. were hunter gatherers in Europe and got wiped out/assimilated by the agriculturalists that arrived from Turkey and then they got moved over by the Celts. They weren't White folks.

Are you sure that it was Turkey and Iran? The region is close though.

“The phenotypic attributes of GD13a are similar to the neighboring Anatolian early farmers and Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers. Based on diagnostic SNPs, she had dark, black hair and brown eyes (see Supplementary). She lacked the derived variant (rs16891982) of the SLC45A2 gene associated with light skin pigmentation but likely had at least one copy of the derived SLC24A5 allele (rs1426654) associated with the same trait. The derived SLC24A5 variant has been found in both Neolithic farmer and Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer groups5,15,24 suggesting that it was already at appreciable frequency before these populations diverged. Finally, she did not have the most common European variant of the LCT gene (rs4988235) associated with the ability to digest raw milk, consistent with the later emergence of this adaptation5,15,21.”
(M. Gallego-Llorente, R. Pinhasi et al., The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran)

 

[DrBanneker]

Are you sure that it was Turkey and Iran? The region is close though.

“The phenotypic attributes of GD13a are similar to the neighboring Anatolian early farmers and Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers. Based on diagnostic SNPs, she had dark, black hair and brown eyes (see Supplementary). She lacked the derived variant (rs16891982) of the SLC45A2 gene associated with light skin pigmentation but likely had at least one copy of the derived SLC24A5 allele (rs1426654) associated with the same trait. The derived SLC24A5 variant has been found in both Neolithic farmer and Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer groups5,15,24 suggesting that it was already at appreciable frequency before these populations diverged. Finally, she did not have the most common European variant of the LCT gene (rs4988235) associated with the ability to digest raw milk, consistent with the later emergence of this adaptation5,15,21.”
(M. Gallego-Llorente, R. Pinhasi et al., The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran)

I was just speaking from memory so have to dig up. Farmers came into Europe via Anatolia and basically absorbed/displaced the hunter gatherers that were there at the time.

 

[Ish Gibor]

I was just speaking from memory so have to dig up. Farmers came into Europe via Anatolia and basically absorbed/displaced the hunter gatherers that were there at the time.

The paper I’ve cited speaks of phenotypic attributes of GD13a that are similar to the neighboring Anatolian early farmers. And these people originated in the region that is present day Iran, Zagros. They did enter Europe via Anatolia, which is now present day Turkey.