Scientists Discover 6,000-Year-Old Skeletons with No Link to Modern Humans - The Mirror

Scientists discover 6,000-year-old skeletons with no link to modern humans - The Mirror

The discovery, made in the Bogotá Altiplano of Colombia, has complicated the already-debated story of South America’s first inhabitants - who were thought to have crossed from Siberia into North America

Archaeologists find 6,000-year-old skeletons from Colombia with ancient DNA

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found 6,000-year-old skeletons from Colombia with ancient DNA that could rewrite human history. The incredible remains belonging to hunter-gatherers at the ancient preceramic site of Checua don’t have DNA that matches any known Indigenous population in the region today. Archaeologists have found 6,000-year-old skeletons from Colombia with ancient DNA Ana Maria Groot/Universidad Nacional de ColombiaThe incredible remains belon…

They Found 6,000-Year-Old Human Remains — But Nobody on Earth Shares Their DNA

Ancient human remains discovered in Colombia have revealed a genetic mystery that challenges what we know about the early inhabitants of South America. Analysis of bones dating back 6,000 years shows DNA that does not connect directly to any other ancient or modern population on the continent.  A Vanished People With No Direct Genetic Descendants Around 6,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers settled in the Bogotá Altiplano, the high plateau of what i…

Mysterious skeletons of 6,000 years old with unprecedented DNA rewrite human story - World Stock Market

Excavations at the Archaeological Site of Checua, near Bogota, Colombia, brought to light the relics of hunter-gathers, whose DNA does not match any known native population of today’s region. On the contrary, their genetic identity reveals a distinct and now extinct genetic line, probably one of the first people who arrived in South America, a group that differentiated early and remained genetically isolated for thousands of years. Analyzing anc…