ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found 6,000-year-old skeletons from Colombia with ancient DNA that could rewrite human history.

The incredible remains belonging to hunter-gatherers at the ancient preceramic site of Checua don't have DNA that matches any known Indigenous population in the region today.

Their bombshell genetic signature has revealed a distinct - and extinct - lineage.

This could have descended all the way from the earliest humans to reach South America.

This lineage diverged early on and remained genetically isolated for thousands of years.

Researchers have managed to reconstruct a rare genetic timeline by anaylysing DNA from 21 people who lived in the Bogota Altiplano between roughly 6,000 to 500 years ago.

Extracted from bones and teeth , the DNA samples showed that the ol

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