10 of the most interesting things found in caves

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In a cave in Cheddar, England, a 9,000-year-old skeleton was found in 1903. To everyone’s surprise, years later, a history teacher living just half a mile away was recognized as the deceased’s relative, tracing back to 300 generations. The skeleton is now the world’s most distant confirmed relative.

Adrian Targett, a 42-year-old history teacher’s DNA by his mother’s line matched with the 9,000-year-old Cheddar Man. It was the oldest complete skeleton ever found in England. The hunter-gatherer lived in 7000 BCE before even agriculture was introduced.

A television series Once Upon a Time in West on archaeology in Somerset conducted the DNA test, and that’s when the revelation came forth. They conducted the test of 20 local people whose relatives were known to have lived in the area for generations. The Oxford University’s Institute of Molar Medicine performed the DNA testing.

The skeleton was first discovered 20 meters deep in the Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, which is England’s prime site for Paleolithic human findings. The discovery enabled us to fetch some data about the onset of the agricultural life of early humans. The remains strongly indicate that farming spread through the population contrary to the idea that farmers traveled into Western Europe from Eastern Europe.

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