The 6,000-Year-Old People Found Near Bogotá — And The DNA Test That Revealed A Native American Lineage That Vanished From The Genetic Record
The evidence also documents that the Central American-related ancestry persisted through the Muisca period despite major cultural changes.
What the evidence does not document is the human experience of that transition.
Not the specific years in which it began and ended.
Not the population-level events — migration, disease, displacement, absorption — that produced the genetic outcome.
Not the perspective of any individual or community that was part of the change.
Not the specific choices, pressures, or historical accidents that shaped the course of demographic events on the plateau over four thousand years.
These are the questions that the science opened without closing.