Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local to the Colombian land bridge. https://t.co/c1XIfmBEfr https://t.co/2HQUnUUCiA
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia.
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The discussions highlight several key points, such as the identification of a previously unknown lineage of preceramic hunter-gatherers and the genetic transition to Central American ancestry. Posts use phrases like 'remarkable discovery' and 'rewrite history' to convey excitement and significance, indicating a deeply engaged audience that perceives the research as transformative for understanding the demographic shifts in Colombia.
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There is strong curiosity about the historical implications of the genetic research presented.
Several participants reference specific scientific details and debate the significance of the findings.
Commenters believe the research will greatly influence the understanding of Colombia's demographic history.
Abstract in brief
- Genetic studies have significantly changed our understanding of the history of populations in the Americas, but Colombia remains largely unexamined in this context.
- Researchers analyzed genome-wide data from 21 individuals in the Bogotá Altiplano, dating from 6000 to 500 years ago, uncovering a new lineage of preceramic hunter-gatherers that does not trace back to North American groups or contribute to modern South American genetics.
- Over time, by 2000 years ago, the genetic makeup shifted to reflect influences from Central American populations, particularly those linked to the Herrera ceramic culture, which persisted through the Muisca period, indicating a complex evolution of ancestry and cultural identity in the region.
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Most liked on X and BlueskyA 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia https://t.co/jrUECNqbhh
Al comparar el genoma de los individuos de hace 6000 años (que estaban en Nemocón) con los que hay disponibles en el continente, observaron que no compartían nada en común. ¡Encontraron un nuevo linaje! Su estudio fue publicado en Science Advances: https://t.co/stmPmSKOU2
#Ancient genomes from #Colombia’s high plains reveal a distinct hunter-gatherer population that vanished 2,000 years ago, replaced entirely by later migrants from #CentralAmerica. @ScienceAdvances https://t.co/YZfA2L5XDh https://t.co/SkDAYzZjIe
Hace 6000 años, una población de cazadores-recolectores descendientes de los primeros pobladores de América surgió en el altiplano de Bogotá, solo para desaparecer un par de milenios después, y ser reemplazada por el grupo que trajo la lengua Chibcha. https://t.co/VecfNb79qh
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Archaeology Discoveries and Genetic Shifts in Colombia
Presenting the biggest discoveries and news in archaeology for August 2025, including a significant genomic study revealing a new lineage of preceramic hunter-gatherers in Colombia. This research uncovers shifts in…
6000-Year-Old Mystery Skeletons Rewrite Native American History
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RT @asociacion_acgh: Inauguramos “Nuestros asociados publican” con un trabajo que conecta el presente con 6.000 años de historia genética:…
Inauguramos “Nuestros asociados publican” con un trabajo que conecta el presente con 6.000 años de historia genética: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia.
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia https://t.co/d2kBDtbxi8 https://t.co/ezalgL6cVx
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances https://t.co/Hlhziesfzq
RT @SergioSilva03: Al comparar el genoma de los individuos de hace 6000 años (que estaban en Nemocón) con los que hay disponibles en el con…
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances https://t.co/kJ1pSXHBLs
RT @MexicanVote: People are misunderstanding this and/ or twisting it for European or African appropriation of our land and ancestors. http…
People are misunderstanding this and/ or twisting it for European or African appropriation of our land and ancestors. https://t.co/m5Oe8xQHOr
RT @anarcho_app: https://t.co/EuCkSele8X https://t.co/rsnLBzf1PA
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A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia
Linaje de cazadores-recolectores en Colombia ~6 ka hasta ahora desconocido, reemplazado por poblaciones de Centroamérica ~2 ka: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Linaje de cazadores-recolectores en Colombia ~6 ka hasta ahora desconocido, reemplazado x poblaciones de Centroamérica ~2 ka A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia https://t.co/tEvC7NK5cs
RT @robertosaezm: Cazadores-recolectores precerámicos en Colombia: linaje basal desconocido, que tampoco contribuyó a poblaciones posterior…
@CanalTreceCO @ScienceMagazine @UNALOficial @Banrepcultural La noticia originalmente tiene que ver con el análisis genético de restos arqueológicos prehispánicos de diferentes sitios arqueológicos de Colombia, entre ellos los esqueletos de Checua y que está documentado en el artículo de @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/opREZErh0c
@adnmax483614 https://t.co/wg4I4ZUyLE
RT @robertosaezm: Cazadores-recolectores precerámicos en Colombia: linaje basal desconocido, que tampoco contribuyó a poblaciones posterior…
RT @robertosaezm: Cazadores-recolectores precerámicos en Colombia: linaje basal desconocido, que tampoco contribuyó a poblaciones posterior…
Cazadores-recolectores precerámicos en Colombia: linaje basal desconocido, que tampoco contribuyó a poblaciones posteriores. A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia doi.org/10.1126/scia...
RT @robertosaezm: Cazadores-recolectores precerámicos en Colombia: linaje basal desconocido, que tampoco contribuyó a poblaciones posterior…
Cazadores-recolectores precerámicos en Colombia: linaje basal desconocido, que tampoco contribuyó a poblaciones posteriores. A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia https://t.co/tEvC7NKD20
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... || #Archaeology
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@grok @hlpg1977 @petrogustavo https://t.co/mZQsK04DA0 La ciencia también se actualiza... Hay hallazgos más antiguos en america
Does anyone know more about this or have a take? Sounds sketch to me. A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... || #archaeology
RT @kirishathegreat: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history…
原著はこちら。 https://t.co/I3KH385Nag
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances https://t.co/VnH8YmwcSR
6000-Year-Old Mystery Skeletons Rewrite Native American History https://t.co/WCCAEiYf3D via @YouTube
RT @hbdchick: @avidseries @ILiketoCope "...nor contribute genetically to ancient or present-day South American populations."
RT @hbdchick: @avidseries @ILiketoCope "...nor contribute genetically to ancient or present-day South American populations."
@avidseries @ILiketoCope "...nor contribute genetically to ancient or present-day South American populations."
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia https://t.co/jvtNn3VBaH
A remarkable mystery has emerged from the highlands of Colombia, where scientists analyzing 6,000-year-old human remains uncovered DNA unlike any ever seen. More: https://t.co/Jr0dRUkAnu #BREAKING #Science #science_news #research #DNA #humananaotmy https://t.co/E7lu4RVPKK
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances #archeology https://t.co/jPlr3N3WOy
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia https://t.co/Yy09WnibmP
RT @SergioSilva03: Al comparar el genoma de los individuos de hace 6000 años (que estaban en Nemocón) con los que hay disponibles en el con…
RT @SergioSilva03: Al comparar el genoma de los individuos de hace 6000 años (que estaban en Nemocón) con los que hay disponibles en el con…
@IlyaAshihmin https://t.co/PsFwM8XECn https://t.co/r0oNCfYDI5
RT @SergioSilva03: Al comparar el genoma de los individuos de hace 6000 años (que estaban en Nemocón) con los que hay disponibles en el con…
RT @SergioSilva03: Al comparar el genoma de los individuos de hace 6000 años (que estaban en Nemocón) con los que hay disponibles en el con…
RT @SergioSilva03: Al comparar el genoma de los individuos de hace 6000 años (que estaban en Nemocón) con los que hay disponibles en el con…
RT @SergioSilva03: Al comparar el genoma de los individuos de hace 6000 años (que estaban en Nemocón) con los que hay disponibles en el con…
Al comparar el genoma de los individuos de hace 6000 años (que estaban en Nemocón) con los que hay disponibles en el continente, observaron que no compartían nada en común. ¡Encontraron un nuevo linaje! Su estudio fue publicado en Science Advances: https://t.co/stmPmSKOU2
RT @juramaga: Hace 6000 años, una población de cazadores-recolectores descendientes de los primeros pobladores de América surgió en el alti…
RT @juramaga: Hace 6000 años, una población de cazadores-recolectores descendientes de los primeros pobladores de América surgió en el alti…
RT @juramaga: Hace 6000 años, una población de cazadores-recolectores descendientes de los primeros pobladores de América surgió en el alti…
RT @juramaga: Hace 6000 años, una población de cazadores-recolectores descendientes de los primeros pobladores de América surgió en el alti…
RT @juramaga: Hace 6000 años, una población de cazadores-recolectores descendientes de los primeros pobladores de América surgió en el alti…
Hace 6000 años, una población de cazadores-recolectores descendientes de los primeros pobladores de América surgió en el altiplano de Bogotá, solo para desaparecer un par de milenios después, y ser reemplazada por el grupo que trajo la lengua Chibcha. https://t.co/VecfNb79qh
@trishankkarthik @iosif_lazaridis This is an actual result but not especially well written up in that story. The study itself is fairly clearly written. https://t.co/8kdiBbQmWw
RT @EBoteroD: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Col…
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances https://t.co/OteaCzY0bK
Researchers uncover a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local to the Colombian land bridge. https://t.co/TViULQ3hkW https://t.co/JS11L0FAlN
ThanX Paul https://t.co/GVkolrBZYW https://t.co/d3veE3z9VX https://t.co/XEgQmH6FYH
Demographic history of #Colombia https://t.co/gLxpdHTYEz
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia • Science Advances https://t.co/4vOUlSntDu https://t.co/khGYDOoJwP
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The hunter-gatherer gene pool of the Bogotá Altiplano was replaced by Central American ancestry at least 2000 years ago. Source: Science Advances https://t.co/6NNtQsn6Oz
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances https://t.co/p8MvmWSKaT
ARTÍCULO REFERENCIA (acceso abierto) A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia https://t.co/mcuZtFbewg vía @ScienceAdvances https://t.co/kOcMeNIAZy
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia. https://t.co/7g5Itw5F8V
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia with a higher affinities to Chibchan speakers from the Isthmus of Panama https://t.co/NSSXsJlFz2
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @physorg_com: #Ancient genomes from #Colombia’s high plains reveal a distinct hunter-gatherer population that vanished 2,000 years ago,…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
RT @ScienceMagazine: Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local t…
Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local to the Colombian land bridge. https://t.co/c1XIfmBEfr https://t.co/2HQUnUUCiA
RT @physorg_com: #Ancient genomes from #Colombia’s high plains reveal a distinct hunter-gatherer population that vanished 2,000 years ago,…
RT @physorg_com: #Ancient genomes from #Colombia’s high plains reveal a distinct hunter-gatherer population that vanished 2,000 years ago,…
RT @physorg_com: #Ancient genomes from #Colombia’s high plains reveal a distinct hunter-gatherer population that vanished 2,000 years ago,…
RT @physorg_com: #Ancient genomes from #Colombia’s high plains reveal a distinct hunter-gatherer population that vanished 2,000 years ago,…
RT @physorg_com: #Ancient genomes from #Colombia’s high plains reveal a distinct hunter-gatherer population that vanished 2,000 years ago,…
#Ancient genomes from #Colombia’s high plains reveal a distinct hunter-gatherer population that vanished 2,000 years ago, replaced entirely by later migrants from #CentralAmerica. @ScienceAdvances https://t.co/YZfA2L5XDh https://t.co/SkDAYzZjIe
@Maroctv_ @NiceRoundbrowwn Not a clapback. it's a demonstration you don't understand what constitutes "evidence". You are telling me I am wrong *Right NOW* based on what MAY be produced *in the Future*. Just yesterday 6000 year old Columbian DNA was published that refutes you https://t.co/CKtkRVgs0f
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RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances https://t.co/pU8BgJeLjZ
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia Science Advances https://t.co/hyKXDyU6nj
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia https://t.co/ghA6okXZfs
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
RT @nrken19: A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colo…
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia https://t.co/jrUECNqbhh