Son of Cheddar Man.Reports that history teacher Adrian Targett was found to be related to a 9,000-year-old Cheddar Man, an ancient skeleton found at Cheddar Gorge, England. Results of a DNA test conducted by Bryan Sykes; Photograph of Gorge posing near a replica of the Cheddar Man.Shanti...
the bones of living and extinct animals were made in the course of the excavations necessary to open up the cave to the public, and further, that in the early years of the present century, portions—the remainder is still in situ—of a human skeleton of upper palolithic date were found....
While this original work was in progress, many pieces of ancient pottery and flint tools were found, and when in 1903 a cutting was made for drainage purposes a little farther inside the cave, other finds were made, including the skeleton known as the 'Cheddar Man,' part of a, and ...