Japanese people are genetically related to ancient Peruvian people

According to the latest research by Japanese scientists, Japanese people and people who once settled in Southern Peru more than 1,000 years ago have a genetic relationship.

Japanese anthropologist Kenichi Shinoda has carried out DNA tests of the remnants of human bodies found in Eastern and Western tombs in the historic Bosque de Pomas Cathedral. Peru.

He discovered that people who once lived in the Lambayeque area, about 800 kilometers north of the capital of Peru, more than 1,000 years ago had a genetic relationship with contemporaries in Ecuador, Colombia. , Siberia, Taiwan and people of the Ainu tribe in northern Japan.

According to the Japan News news network, this study was carried out within the framework of a cultural archaeological project funded by the Japanese Government.

The results of the study will be presented at a one-year Sican culture exhibition at the Tokyo Museum of Science and Nature.