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
This is a significant conclusion for the archaeology of the northern Andes.
It means that the introduction of the Herrera ceramic tradition was not simply a cultural adoption — the spread of new pottery-making knowledge among an existing population.
It was accompanied by, and possibly caused or enabled by, an actual movement of people.
The nature of that movement — its scale, its pace, whether it involved peaceful coexistence with or violent displacement of the existing inhabitants, what social forms it took — cannot be determined from the genetic data alone.
Genetics tells us that ancestry changed.
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