High genetic diversity on a sample of pre-Columbian bone remains from Guane territories in northwestern Colombia
✍ Scribed by Andrea Casas-Vargas; Alberto Gómez; Ignacio Briceño; Marcela Díaz-Matallana; Jaime E. Bernal; José Vicente Rodríguez
- Book ID
- 102705004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1018 KB
- Volume
- 146
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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✦ Synopsis
Ancient DNA was recovered from 17 individuals found in a rock shelter in the district of ''La Purnia'' (Santander, Colombia). This region is the homeland of pre-Columbian Guane, whom spread over the ''Rı ´o Suarez'' to the ''Rı ´o de Oro'', and were surrounded to the west by the Central Andes, south and east by foothills of Eastern Andes, and north by the ''Chicamocha'' river canyon. Guanes established in a region that straddles the Andes and the northern Amazon basin, possibly making it an unavoidable conduit for people moving to and from South America. We amplified mtDNA hypervariable region I (HVI) segments from ancient bone remains, and the resulting sequences were compared with both ancient and modern mitochondrial haplogroups from American and non-American populations.