People coming from the north settled South America. The first hunter-gatherers entered the continent from the region of what is Colombia today and then spread out from there. These early settlers of the high plains around Bogotá, the Altiplano, have been dated back to 6,000 years ago. They represent a population that has yet to be described. They disappeared 2,000 years ago at the latest and were replaced by a second migration from Central America. An international research team from the University of Tübingen, the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia have now found genetic evidence of a previously unknown, early population. The study is published in the journal Science Advances. The research
