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
And the fact that their genetic signature is not detectable in the later populations of the same plateau is a demographic observation about a specific set of comparison populations, not a philosophical claim about their place in the human story.
They were here.
The science established that.
How they lived, what they knew, what they believed, why their genetic lineage stopped appearing in the later record of the plateau — these remain, for now, outside the reach of what the bones can tell us.
The search for answers has begun, and it will continue.
The hill in the Checua River valley is still there.
The plateau above Bogotá is still there.
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