Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia before vanishing.

Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia.

The finding shows that one long-lasting group stayed rooted in its homeland while cultures, languages, and technologies shifted around it.

  • vatlark@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Damn a 2000 year drought.

    Its earliest known member lived about 8,500 years ago in the same region.

    Most later individuals from this area inherited much of their DNA from that lineage, which points to unusually strong continuity through time.

    Even a long period of severe drought between roughly 6,000 and 4,000 years ago did not erase this ancestry from the record.