The first modern Briton had 'dark to black' skin, blue eyes… Name given:...

Cheddar Man DNA analysis suggests first modern Britons had “dark to black” skin

It’s evidence that “imaginary racial categories” are “very recent constructions,” scientists say

"It was initially assumed that Cheddar Man had pale skin and fair hair, but his DNA paints a different picture, strongly suggesting he had blue eyes, a very dark brown to black complexion and dark curly hair," the Guardian reported.
"The discovery shows that the genes for lighter skin became widespread in European populations far later than originally thought – and that skin color [sic] was not always a proxy for geographic origin in the way it is often seen to be today."
Tom Booth, an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum who worked on the DNA analysis, told the Guardian, "It really shows up that these imaginary racial categories that we have are really very modern constructions, or very recent constructions, that really are not applicable to the past at all."
Yoan Diekmann, another team member and computational biologist at University College London, told the Guardian that the association often assumed between Britishness and whiteness was "not an immutable truth. It has always changed and will change."

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