cave dweller

It was the middle of the 20th Century when England's last cave dwellers gave up their homes in a rural part of the country near Birmingham.

But new evidence from the oldest known DNA from the British Isles shows the two sets of cave dwellers had dramatically different ancestry.

Posting videos of his projects made him a star in a growing subgenre of people pretending to live like cave dwellers and building things out of raw materials with their bare hands.

“A stranger comes to town and changes everything” is likely a story first told by cave dwellers.

This year, for the first time, cave dirt yielded DNA once housed in the nucleus of human cells, and researchers used such “dirt DNA” to reconstruct the identity of cave dwellers around the world.