March
28
/ 2022
A team of archaeologists and genetic scientists have just announced the results of a groundbreaking study of DNA obtained from ancient “migrant” skeletons found in Belize. What they discovered helped them trace the evolution of the complex genetic and cultural heritage of the Maya, who built a great empire that spanned one-third of southern Mexico and Central America in the first millennium AD. The study also shows specific evidence for the migration of corn cultivation from South America, which these migrants from the south apparently brought with them. In their article in the journal Nature: Communications, the researchers explained how their genetic tests revealed the existence of a previously unknown group of migrants in Central America, who arrived in Maya
