New DNA evidence could change everything we know about how humans settled and spread in South America
Ed Griffiths
New DNA evidence could change our understanding of how humans settled and spread in South America as research has revealed long-distance migration began centuries earlier than previously thought. An international research team uncovered evidence that extensive coastal migration in Peru began at least eight centuries ago, well before the Inca Empire rose to power. The findings, published in Nature Communications, challenge previous assumptions about the mobility of pre-Inca societies along the Pa