History - Who was the Cheddar man?

This week, Year 3 learned about one of the most fascinating finds that archeologists have made in Britain: The Cheddar Man. Found in a cave in Cheddar, Somerset, 'The Cheddar Man' is the name given to a skeleton which was discovered in 1903. This is the oldest skeleton found in Britain, which belonged to a man in his 20s during the Mesolithic. The children learned that the skull of The Cheddar Man has a hole above the right eye. Year 3 used what they have already learned about the Stone Age to come up with clever theories to explain his mysterious injury. An accident while hunting? Wounded by a falling stalactite? Trepanning? For now, we just don't know!

What we do know comes from DNA analysis. We learned that the Cheddar Man had dark skin, black, wavy hair and light blue or green eyes. Year 3 then had a go at creating their own 'artist's interpretation' of the evidence that we have.