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New research produces earliest DNA from Sub-Saharan Africa and a more complete look at ancient peoples.

New study marries genetics, archaeology and suggests groups in ancient Africa traveled, swapped goods, ideas . Between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, people across early eastern and southern Africa left behind traces of an explosion of symbolic expression reflected in far more intensive use of eggshell beads, pendants, pigments, and other art. Archaeologists have long hypothesizedNew study marries genetics, archaeology and suggests groups in ancient Africa traveled, swapped goods, ideas . Between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, people across early eastern and southern Africa left behind traces of a...

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.

Ideas, Inventions And Innovations Ancient DNA and Archaeology Offer New Insights Into Caribbean 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 with the goddess of fertility in Taino culture. Credit: Kristen Grace/Florida Museum 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. An international team led...

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 many people lived in the Caribbean when the Spanish first arrived? How much, if any, ancestry can today...