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 First Time It Was Possible To Know
There is a moment in the history of every scientific field when a question that was previously unanswerable becomes answerable because the right tools have been developed.
For the genomic history of Colombia’s prehistoric inhabitants, 2025 was that moment.
For decades, Colombian archaeologists had documented the material evidence of the Altiplano’s human past — the stone tools, the ceramics, the burial sites, the architecture, the food remains.
They had built a detailed picture of cultural change on the plateau, tracing the transitions from Preceramic hunter-gatherers to Herrera-period cultivators to Muisca chiefdom society.
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