New DNA analysis reveals that people from as far as Amazonia once lived and worked in the Inca royal estate.
scientists analyzed DNA from 34 people and uncovered a diverse genetic ancestry. This supports a theory that the people believed to have been servants were brought from distant and varied populations across the“There were no slaves in the Andean world.
Salazar says it was surprising that only a few came from the heartlands of the Inca Empire. The majority came from the Pacific coast, the Amazonian lowlands, Ecuador and Chile. However, over a third of the sample had some Amazonian genetic background. “Another surprise was the number of individuals with genetic admixtures from geographically unrelated sources ,” Salazar says. “The sheer genetic diversity at Machu Picchu was remarkable and unprecedented, and it suggests that the cultural diversity at Machu Picchu was more similar to a cosmopolitan center than a modern agricultural village.was also diverse, but very different from the samples excavated at Machu Picchu.
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