7,000 old man had dark skin and blue eyes

Scientists studying the remains of a 7,000 year old man from the Mesolithic period found he had dark skin and blue eyes. The remains of the man, dubbed “La Brana 1” by scientists, was found in Spain in 2006 along with a second individual, whose remains were less well preserved. Carles Lalueza-Fox from the Spanish National Research Council said African versions of pigmentation genes determined the skin color of La Brana 1, but the biggest surprise was that he had blue eyes associated with northern Europeans. This resulted in a “unique phenotype in a genome that is otherwise clearly northern European.”

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