Bonkers scientists have unearthed evidence of what the human landscape looked like 10,000 years ago in Europe. The ancestors of all Europeans were dark-skinned, with some having blonde hair or blue eyes.
The folks were in transition to lose their pigmentation, which was protecting them from the sun's rays. The cold helped facilitate the transition. Clothes protected the skin from damage, allowing lighter skin to remain stable.
They weren't skint; they had products they made using their smarts. They would trade a pair of female moccasins for some fish and, on a different occasion, a chicken for some knob.
Ancient DNA from Cheddar Man, a Mesolithic skeleton discovered in 1903 at Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, has helped Museum scientists paint a portrait of one of the oldest modern humans in Britain.
Cheddar Man lived around 10,000 years ago and is the oldest almost complete skeleton of our species, Homo sapiens, ever found in Britain. The lad would have been gobsmacked if he knew his crusty bones would end up in a museum.
In northern Spain, they found a bird named Elba, a human sister of Cheddar Man who lived 9,000 years ago. She, too, was dark-complexioned and in transition to developing lighter skin and eyes.
The remains were found in the Chando Lindeiro cave in the northwestern region of Galicia in 1996. Elba, meaning 'the woman who comes from the [misty] mountains,' was found by the team at the University Institute of Geology.
With global warming as it is, Europeans will have to start marrying people from Northern India to regain their skin protection as an insurance policy for the next bloody ice age when 90 percent of Europe will be under hundreds of feet of solid ice sheets.
The earliest birds will catch the only remaining worm because nothing grows on ice, and there won't be any worms to be had unless you prepare for what's coming.
