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
They were not simply passing through.
Their genetics told a story that no one could read for six thousand years.
The specific molecular record of their ancestry — the particular pattern of genetic variants that distinguished their lineage from every other South American population studied so far — waited in the dense bone of their inner ears through the rise and fall of every civilization that followed them on the same plateau.
The Herrera-period people who came two or four thousand years later did not carry their genetic signature.
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