What did the inhabitants of Europe who lived 10 thousand years ago look like?

Recently, one of the most popular classes for scientists is to restore the appearance of ancient people from their remains, this is facilitated by the unprecedented development of scientific and technological progress. British and Dutch scientists, for example, reconstructed the head and face of a Cheddar man using DNA material. The bones of this man were discovered in the Cheddar Gorge (England) at the dawn of the 20th century, but researchers were able to achieve such amazing results in their study only now.

According to scientists, the man lived about 10,000 years ago, at the time of his death he was 20 years old. Cheddar man was not tall - 165 cm, with dark, curly hair, very dark skin and light eyes. Researchers even managed to find out that right before the death, the guy was eating deer or wild horse meat.

Scientists say that, despite the fact that this is a portrait of only one person, it can be used to judge the appearance of the average European of that time.

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