DNA from a 9,000-year-old skeleton just matched a Somerset schoolteacher. Same maternal line. 300 generations. Longest verified bloodline in history.
In Somerset, England, a 9,000-year-old skeleton pulled from the limestone depths of Cheddar Gorge has been genetically matched to a living man named Adrian Targett. He’s 42. Teaches history. Lives less than a mile from the cave. And carries the same mitochondrial DNA as the Mesolithic hunter-gatherer now known as Cheddar Man. The match was …
