A recently published study, co-authored by a UC Santa Cruz professor, analyzing the 500 year old DNA of those buried near the iconic Incan citadel Machu Picchu shows that the residents there, force…
SANTA CRUZ — A recently published study, co-authored by UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz, analyzing the 500 year-old DNA of those buried near Peru’s iconic Incan citadel Machu Picchu, shows that the servant class that lived and died there — forcefully relocated to the structure by the Incan empire — hailed from more diverse backgrounds than scientists had anticipated.
“At that time, Yale was involved in negotiations with the State of Peru to return all the artifacts and human remains from the Hiram Bingham excavations in Peru,” said Fehren-Schmitz. “He offered me to come over as a postdoc to help with the human remains of the repatriation to Peru. “Before that, I’d never even thought about the possibility of having access to the human remains buried at that site,” said Fehren Schmitz. “That started the whole project. It took about 12 years to finish it for many reasons.”
According to Fehren-Schmitz, the current understanding among scholars is that Machu Picchu served as a seasonal mountain getaway for Incan emperors beginning with the emperor Pachacuti and was in use from about 1420 to 1530. “It was definitely not a city in the traditional sense,” said Fehren-Schmitz. “There was a continuous population living at the site and these are the individuals that our study focuses on. They probably didn’t occupy many of these fascinating buildings there, but served the site and kept it alive while the royal family was there and while they were not there.”
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