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Stone Interchanges in the Bahama Archipelago: “Long Journey’s End” (© Merald Clark for SIBA) An international team of scientists reveals the genetic makeup of the people who lived in the Caribbean between about 400 and 3,100 years ago-at once settling several archaeologic and anthropologic debates, illuminating present-day ancestries and reaching startling conclusions about Indigenous population sizes when Caribbean cultures were devastated by European colonialism beginning in the 1490s. About 6,000 years ago, at the start of the Archaic Age, humans first settled in the islands of the ...

GAINESVILLE — The history of the Caribbean’s original islanders comes into sharper focus in a new Nature study that combines decades of archaeological work with advancements in genetic technology.

Ancient DNA shows humans settled Caribbean in 2 distinct waves A photo provided by Sapienza Archaeo-Anthropological Mission showing excavation of the Juan Dolio archaeological site in Punta Rucia, Dominican Republic. About 2,500 years ago, the archaeological record shows, there was a drastic shift in the cultural life of the Caribbean. Sapienza Archaeo-Anthropological Mission via The New York Times. by Carl Zimmer (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- 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 ...

The Archaic Age transitioned to the Ceramic Age in the Caribbean. The ceramicists appear to have migrated to the Caribbean from South America, most likely island-hopping through the Lesser Antilles, at least 1,700 years ago, according to researchers. Photo credit: Corinne Hofman and Menno Hoogland from the Wilcox Collection A new study on the first people to inhabit the Caribbean has shed new light on the region's inhabitants from thousands of years ago. A statement from the Harvard Gazette reported about 6,000 years ago, at the start of the Archaic Age, humans first settled in the islands o...