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Researchers use DNA to track original settlers of Caribbean islands By (0) Archaeologists have pointed to shifts in Caribbean pottery styles as evidence of new migrations, but new genetics research shows all the styles were created by one group of people over time. Photo by Corinne Hofman and Menno Hoogland Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The origins of the Caribbeans first islanders can be traced to two distinct groups, thousands of years apart, suggesting the ar...

By David Reich and Orlando Patterson Dr. Reich is a geneticist at Harvard who specializes in the study of ancient DNA. Dr. Patterson is a sociologist at Harvard with expertise in the Caribbean. Patterson is a Jamaican-American mulatto, whose Jamaicanness presumably is assumed to empower him to comment on the fate of the indigenous populations of Jamaica, despite not showing his DNA test results proving he is descended from some Amerindians. Anyway, it’s a good strategy for Reich to recruit se...

About 6,000 years ago, at the start of the Archaic Age, humans first settled in the islands of the Caribbean. Three thousand to four thousand years later, stone tools gave way to clay pottery and the Ceramic Age began. Another two millennia passed before Europeans sailed across the Atlantic and made first contact. Those who study and those who live in the region have long wondered: Where did these stone tool-using and clay-crafting populations come from? Were they related to each other? How man...

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 E-Mail IMAGE: Archaeological research and ancient DNA technology can work hand in hand to illuminate past history. This vessel, made between AD 1200-1500 in present-day Dominican Republic, shows a frog figure, associated... view more  Credit: Kristen Grace/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The history of the Caribbeans original islanders comes into sharper focus in a new Nature study that combines decades of archaeological work with advancements in genetic technology. An internat...

Video: Rick Groleau About 6,000 years ago, at the start of the Archaic Age, humans first settled in the islands of the Caribbean. Three to four thousand years later, stone tools gave way to clay pottery and the Ceramic Age began. Another two millennia passed before Europeans sailed across the Atlantic and made first contact. Those who study and those who live in the region have long wondered: Where did these stone tool-using and clay-crafting populations come from? Were they related to ...

Nature study that combines decades of archaeological work with advancements in genetic technology. An international team led by Harvard Medical School’s David Reich analyzed the genomes of 263 individuals in the largest study of ancient human DNA in the Americas to date. The genetics trace two major migratory waves in the Caribbean by two distinct groups, thousands of years apart, revealing an archipelago settled by highly mobile people, with distant relatives often living on different islan...

Ancient DNA Shows Humans Settled Caribbean in 2 Distinct Waves Millions of people living on the islands today inherited genes from the people who made them home before Europeans arrived. Taíno ceramic vessels from eastern Dominican Republic, circa A.D. 1400.Credit...Menno Hoogland/Leiden University Dec. 23, 2020 When Dr. Juan Aviles went to school in Puerto Rico, teachers taught him that the original people of the island, the Taino, vanished soon after Spain colonized it. Violence, disease and...