The 64 Maya Boys Buried Beneath Chichén Itzá — And The DNA Test That Found Two Pairs Of Identical Twins
All 64 analyzed individuals were genetically male.
This was the first finding, and it established that the demographic profile of the chultún was distinctively and consistently male — a pattern that traditional skeletal analysis had been unable to establish with confidence because of the difficulty of sex estimation in juvenile remains.
Among the 64 individuals, 11 close-relative pairings were identified, meaning that 11 pairs of children were found to be first-degree or second-degree biological relatives.
Overall, 16 of 64 analyzed children — 25 percent — had at least one close relative in the analyzed assemblage.