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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA—Archaeologists surveying in advance of energy-related construction southwest of Bogota have uncovered a 12-acre settlement dating as far back as 900 B.C., according to Colombia Reports. The village appears to have endured until 1500 A.D., when it was last occupied by the Muisca people, who were wiped out when the Spaniards arrived. Until now, researchers had assumed that pre-Columbian people in the area were mainly nomadic. But the newly discovered village suggests that settlements lasted for hundreds of years in the region, challenging scholars' assumptions about prehistoric societies in what is now Colombia.
