Connected Sites
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Social Structure Revision: Proved residents were a diverse servant class (Yanacona) from across the empire, not a local elite guard. Science (2023): Salazar et al. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3377
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Ritual Myth-Busting: Corrected the "Virgin Sacrifice" myth; proved victims were young boys mirroring Maya "Hero Twin" legends. Nature (2024): Barquera et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07509-7
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Overturned Ecocide Narrative: Proved no population collapse occurred and confirmed contact with South Americans ~1300 AD. Nature (2024): Moreno-Mayar et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07881-4
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Biological Cosmopolitanism: Provided the first genomic proof of high Near Eastern ancestry within a single Roman household. Sci. Rep. (Nature) (2022): Viva et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10899-1
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Hominin Lineage: Linked 400,000-year-old European fossils directly to Siberian Denisovans, rewriting the map of early human migration. Nature (2014): Meyer et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12788
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Lineage Correction: Replaced historical theory with biological proof of Tutankhamun’s parentage (Akhenaten and the "Younger Lady"). JAMA (2010): Hawass et al. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/185393