Posted on 07/29/2023 8:18:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study, published in Science Advances, used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried more than 500 years ago came from within the lost Inca Empire.
Researchers, including Jason Nesbitt, associate professor of archaeology at Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, performed genetic testing on individuals buried at Machu Picchu in order to learn more about the people who lived and worked there...
It was once part of a royal estate of the Inca Empire.
Like other royal estates, Machu Picchu was home not only to royalty and other elite members of Inca society, but also to attendants and workers, many of whom lived in the estate year-round. These residents did not necessarily come from the local area, though it is only in this study that researchers have been able to confirm, with DNA evidence, the diversity of their backgrounds...
This DNA analysis works in much the same way that modern genetic ancestry kits work. The researchers compared the DNA of 34 individuals buried at Machu Picchu to that of individuals from other places around the Inca Empire as well as some modern genomes from South America to see how closely related they might be.
The results of the DNA analysis showed that the individuals had come from throughout the Inca Empire, some as far away as Amazonia. Few of them had shared DNA with each other, showing that they had been brought to Machu Picchu as individuals rather than as part of a family or community group.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Whether appropriate or not it seems you have to use the word “diverse “ or you can’t get a paper published in academa.
Yah. Why enslave your near neighbors when you can attack a farther away neighbor and bring back them as slaves?
This was done since we came down out of the trees, fer Chissakes!
If I read that headline, I know not to go there.
In plain and honest words-those workers were servants at best, slaves at worst-captives taken when their settlements/cities were conquered by the Inca-doesn’t sound as nice-but it is far more likely...
slaves?
Any Carthaginians?
Ack, I’ll pass on the hike.
Every group, race, creed or just because they didn’t run fast enough was enslaved at some point in history.
Good catch!!
It was obvious how they had so carefully parsed the sentences to as to avoid the “S” word.
“S” word! OMG!
not possible....only evil whites were slavers. Pre-Columbian Indians were totally peaaceful, noble savages. They never did nuffin wrong.
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