Previously Unknown South American Group Revealed by DNA Study

Archaeology Magazine ^ | June 2, 2025 | editors / unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Scientists were recently baffled by DNA evidence that revealed the existence of a genetically unknown group of early South American settlers. Archaeologists are continually adapting their models for how human populations spread from Asia through North America to South America, and this new research is bound to alter those theories once again. The Associated Press reports that the researchers analyzed ancient DNA from 21 individuals who lived in Colombia's Altiplano Cundiboyacense region thousands of years ago. Located near current-day Bogotá, this area was also close to the ancient land bridge connecting South and Central America, the route that early human migrants would have taken. DNA analysis determined that the group living there 6,000 years ago was unrelated to either Native North Americans or present-day and ancient South Americans. This group of hunter-gatherers seems to have disappeared around 2,000 years ago, although scholars still don't know why. These people might have eventually mixed with a new, larger genetic group, or might have been pushed out entirely. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Science Advances. To read about hunter-gatherers who endured the harsh environments of South America's southern reaches for 13,000 years, go to "Letter from Patagonia: Surviving a Windswept Land."

[SunkenCiv]

Remains of two hunter-gatherers excavated at the Checua site in Colombia's Altiplano

Ana María Groot/Universidad Nacional de Colombia

[SunkenCiv]

[cpdiii]

“Located near current-day Bogotá, this area was also close to the ancient land bridge connecting South and Central America”

This is total Bravo Sierra aka Bull Sh-t. The land bridge was hundreds of miles North on the isthmus of Panama and Columbia. Bogata is 8600 hundred feet at the airport, El Dorado.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, the ongoing tragedy where college grads don’t have the first clue about geography... the underlying scholarly paper by contrast says, “The Isthmo-Colombian area, stretching from the coast of Honduras to the northern Colombian Andes, is critical to understanding the peopling of the Americas. Besides being the land bridge between North and South America, it is at the center of the three major cultural regions of Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes.” And the DNA interpretation is different. :^)

[Red Badger]

JEWISH?...Mormons ecstatic......................

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Beat me to it. I was thinking how the mormons will glom onto this.
I remember about 50 years ago when some magazine published something similar. Letters to the editor from mormons showed them to be try to claim they were “Laminites”

[Red Badger]

We have Mormon ‘missionaries’ canvass our neighborhood every now and then. I invite them in to talk, and then I mention that there was a DNA study that traced South American native tribes to Asia, but NOT through the Bering Land Bridge.

Once, one guy almost went orgasmic when I told him this!..........

[PIF]

Hindus - many of the existing statuary in the area bear striking resemblances to various Hindu gods. The word “Maya” originates in India.

[ckilmer]

Yes but that group still came from Asia byo Australia. What gobsmacks scientists is that the evidence suggests the came across the pacific over 12k years ago