Cheddar Man comes to Ireland.
Just to be clear, they don't have any DNA evidence from 33,000 year old human remains. They have reindeer bones with cut marks indicating they were butchered with stone tools that many years ago.
They've previously been able to analyse the DNA of infant remains estimated to be 6,000 years found in the Burren so it's possible this documentary is making the assumption the baby was related to whomever might have butchered the deer. I haven't watched the documentary and the report isn't very clear.
Truth is, the science on the DNA of prehistoric humans in Europe is fudgy as this New Scientist article pointed out after Cheddar Man headlines made the rounds and they don't know for certain what eye colour or skin tone these people had.
What is clear is the primary reason they dispense with caution are the implications about race and immigration they are trying to force and because they get to use Africans with blue contact lenses in a show about Irish history.
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