Dietary analysis looking at the carbon and nitrogen values in her bones also revealed that her diet was likely to have included a lot of seafood.
Dr Selina Brace of London’s Natural History Museum said: “Our scientific knowledge and understanding is constantly evolving, and as scientists, it’s our job to keep pushing for answers.
“Thanks to the advancement of technology that has occurred in the past decade, since the Beachy Head woman first came to light, we are excited to report this new comprehensive data and share more about this individual and her life.”
There has been ongoing scientific debate about the skin tone of early Britons, with some researchers suggesting that the constructors of Stonehenge were black.
However, some genetic studies have shown that the inhabitants of Britain in the period when Stonehenge was completed, around 2,500BC, were pale-skinned early farmers, whose ancestors had spread from Anatolia – modern-day Turkey.
