Teacher Finds Out He’s Related To 9000-Year-Old Skeleton Known As “Cheddar Man”

[Kamal900]

Love cheddar cheese.

[Dick]

Love cheddar cheese.

I hate it. Either feta or parmesan or gtfo.

[Kamal900]

I hate it. Either feta or parmesan or gtfo.

Eating feta cheese makes me feel Greek and I like it.

[Dick]

Eating feta cheese makes me feel Greek and I like it.

It tastes even better soaked in milk, cuts the saltiness and makes it creamier. Also high in protein.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Love cheddar cheese.

Cheddar tastes lovely on in sandwiches with Branston sweet pickle sauce on a Summer's day picnic, and also with traditional English Ploughman's dishes in English countryside pub meals. (I like exploring local cheese markets.... I like oak smoked cheddar cheese, cranberry and walnut cheese, cream cheese, blue cheese, goats cheese, parmesan, feta, camembert, brie, etc... depends on the dish it will be used in as different cheeses with various textures, flavours, and strengths will complement different types of dishes.)

You can't fully appreciate cheddar cheese without having it with either organic cherry tomatoes and cucumber, and especially without having it with Branston sweet pickle sauce.

I also like English piccalilli sauce too which includes vegetables and spices in the recipe .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccalilli

[♥ Lily ♥]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_Man

[♥ Lily ♥]

Cheddar Man, the oldest skeleton, to be shown on TV


The National History Museum created this image of the Cheddar Man

Britain's oldest complete skeleton, the Cheddar Man, will feature on BBC Two's A History of Ancient Britain.

Cheddar Man lived in the Somerset area 9,000 years ago and was buried in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, where he was discovered in 1903.

It is believed he has some descendents which still live in the area, including a local history teacher.

The programme at 9pm aims to explore the origins of Britain and its people.

During the show, presenter Neil Oliver also examines 8,000-year-old footprints revealed beneath tidal mud banks in Wales and abseils into a cave dating back 33,000 years.

The historian also reveals how, as the last ice age receded some 11,000 years ago, Britain became an island, a fate that was sealed following a cataclysmic tsunami around 6,000 BC.

'Tremendous interest'

Bob Smart from Cheddar Caves said Cheddar Man brings many people to the area and that it was very popular with school trips.

"People are tremendously interested in anything to do with archaeology and prehistory and ancestry.

"There's a tremendous interest in anything we can discover about the past and all the early archaeology evidence is concentrated in places like Cheddar Cave and Gorge.

"For youngsters living these days who watch telly or go on the computer, it's difficult for them to get an overview of how the world grew up and to realise that we really are the same people as our ancestors were 200,000 years ago."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset...00/9392086.stm