{"id":223099,"date":"2025-10-08T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/1000-year-old-gut-microbiome-revealed-for-young-man-who-lived-in-pre-hispanic-mexico"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:14:02","slug":"1000-year-old-gut-microbiome-revealed-for-young-man-who-lived-in-pre-hispanic-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/1000-year-old-gut-microbiome-revealed-for-young-man-who-lived-in-pre-hispanic-mexico","title":{"rendered":"1,000-year-old gut microbiome revealed for young man who lived in pre-Hispanic Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Analysis of preserved feces and intestinal tissue has revealed specific types of bacteria that were present in the microbiome of a young adult man who lived in Mexico about 1,000 years ago, prior to Spanish colonization. Santiago Rosas-Plaza of Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico and colleagues present these findings<\/a> in PLOS One.<\/p>\n

The human gut microbiome<\/a> consists of microorganisms, including bacteria<\/a>, that naturally live in people\u2019s intestines. Certain types of bacteria are widely associated with the human gut microbiome, but a person\u2019s particular mix of bacteria may vary depending on factors such as age, diet, health, and where they live. Studying ancient microbiomes using mummies and human remains<\/a> can therefore deepen understanding of ancient populations and show how the human microbiome may have changed over time.<\/p>\n

A growing number of ancient microbiomes have been revealed, including for an ancient Incan person and Germany\u2019s \u201cTyrolean Iceman.\u201d To further expand the field, Rosas-Plaza and colleagues analyzed the exceptionally well-preserved remains of a man discovered in a rock shelter<\/a> in Zimap\u00e1n, Mexico. Prior analyses suggest the \u201cZimap\u00e1n man\u201d was most likely a seasonal seminomadic hunter-gatherer who was part of the ancient Mesoamerican Otopame culture and died about 1,000 years ago between the ages of 21 and 35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Analysis of preserved feces and intestinal tissue has revealed specific types of bacteria that were present in the microbiome of a young adult man who lived in Mexico about 1,000 years ago, prior to Spanish colonization. Santiago Rosas-Plaza of Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico and colleagues present these findings in PLOS One. The human gut [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}