The Checua individuals and the later Herrera and Muisca individuals documented in the study are the biological ancestors, in various ways, of the Indigenous communities present in the Bogotá Altiplano today.

The Muisca cabildos — the legally recognized Indigenous communities of the Bogotá savanna — maintain claims to historical and cultural continuity with the pre-Columbian Muisca that are not reducible to genetics but that are affected by how the scientific record of that history is described and interpreted.

The 2025 study’s finding that the Muisca-period individuals carry Central American-related ancestry that replaced an earlier distinct lineage does not undermine the identity or historical claims of contemporary Muisca communities.

Cultural continuity, territorial connection, and the social processes by which communities maintain and transmit identity across generations are not the same as genetic continuity.