Engraved human bone detail from Gough’s Cave
(Picture: Trustees of the Natural History Museum)Scientists at London’s Natural History Museum, UCL and the Francis Crick Institute have extracted DNA from the oldest bones of stone age hunter-gatherer Britons - and made a gruesome discovery.
Tech & Science Daily spoke to Dr Selina Brace, the museum’s principal researcher in ancient DNA.
Dr Brace says one of the finds, from the same cave where Cheddar Man was discovered, shows “significant human modification” with evidence pointing to “ritualistic cannibalism” about 15,000 years ago.
It’s hoped the discovery of the oldest human bones found so far in the British Isles will help give more clues to the evolution of populations.
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