Oxford University scientists announced Friday that Adrian Targett, 42, a history teacher in the town of Cheddar in southwest England, shares a common ancestor with Cheddar Man.
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"You go back and eventually you come to someone who is a direct ancestor of both of them, perhaps even Cheddar Man's mother or grandmother ."
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The "'Cheddar Man Museum of Prehistory "'inspired by the discovery of ancient hominids such as Cheddar Man contains information about the caves and their palaeontological development.
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The "'Cheddar Man Museum of Prehistory "'inspired by the discovery of ancient hominids such as Cheddar Man contains information about the caves and their palaeontological development.
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In 1997, DNA analysis was carried out on a tooth from a Mesolithic Cheddar Man from about 7150 BC whose remains were found in Gough's Cave at Cheddar Gorge.
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The experiment came about when a documentary filmmaker, researching a series on archaeology in Somerset, in southwestern England, decided to test whether Cheddar Man had any descendants in the area.
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In England, geneticists matched the 9, 000-year-old skeleton of the so-called Cheddar man against a school teacher living near the cave where the bones were found.
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Prof . Chris Stringer, a researcher at London's Natural History Museum, said one problem with the research " is that we don't know that Cheddar Man had any children.
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Similar testing has been done in other regions : Cheddar man lived in England 9000 years ago, and his DNA was matched by Bryan Sykes to that of some present day inhabitants of his locale.
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Targett, who was born in Bristol, just 15 miles away, was a match, meaning that he is a descendant of a woman in Cheddar Man's family _ the ur-Cheddar Woman.
