Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries

Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries

The First Brit: Secrets of the 10,000 Year Old Man (2018x10)


Air date: Feb 18, 2018

Documentary following scientists at the Natural History Museum and University College London studying Britain's oldest human remains. The complete skeleton was unearthed in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, more than 100 years previously, and has been dated as 10,000 years old. While DNA analysis and advanced genetic testing is carried out on the remains, two of the world's most acclaimed palaeontological model makers are attempting to recreate the human face of this ancient Briton for the first time

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