Somewhere in the soil of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, between the six-thousand-year-old bones and the two-thousand-year-old bones, there are remains that have not yet been found or analyzed.

Remains that might bridge the gap, that might reveal when the transition began, that might show what an intermediate population looked like on its way from the Checua lineage to the Herrera-period ancestry.

Finding those remains, extracting their DNA, and reading the story they contain is the work that comes next.

The Checua people were the first Colombians to have their genomes published in the scientific record.

They were the first ancient inhabitants of the Bogotá Altiplano to be placed, however approximately, in the genetic family tree of the Americas.