Found in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England, this human male's remains are Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, dating back to approximately 7150 b.c. It is supposed that he suffered a violent death, associated by some with the practice of cannibalism in the area at the time. In the late 1990s, Bryan Sykes of Oxford University extracted one of the Cheddar Man's molars to obtain DNA. After determining the Cheddar Man's haplogroup and profile, Sykes compared the Cheddar Man's profile against twenty other living residents of Cheddar Gorge. The results produced two exact matches and one match with a single mutation.

Haplogroup: U5a