TY - JOUR
T1 - Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean
AU - Nägele, Kathrin
AU - Posth, Cosimo
AU - Iraeta Orbegozo, Miren
AU - de Armas, Yadira Chinique
AU - Hernandez Godoy, Silvia Teresita
AU - Herrera, Ulises M. González
AU - Nieves-Colon, Maria A.
AU - Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela
AU - Mylopotamitaki, Dorothea
AU - Radzeviciute, Rita
AU - Laffoon, Jason
AU - Pestle, William J.
AU - Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmin
AU - Lamnidis, Thiseas C.
AU - Schaffer, William C.
AU - Carr, Robert S.
AU - Day, Jane S.
AU - Arredondo Antunez, Carlos
AU - Rangel Rivero, Armando
AU - Martinez-Fuentes, Antonio J.
AU - Crespo-Torres, Edwin
AU - Roksandic, Ivan
AU - Stone, Anne C.
AU - Lalueza-Fox, Carles
AU - Hoogland, Menno
AU - Roksandic, Mirjana
AU - Hofman, Corinne L.
AU - Krause, Johannes
AU - Schroeder, Hannes
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans, but where they came from and how and when they reached the islands remain unclear. We generated genome-wide data for 93 ancient Caribbean islanders dating between 3200 and 400 calibrated years before the present and found evidence of at least three separate dispersals into the region, including two early dispersals into the Western Caribbean, one of which seems connected to radiation events in North America. This was followed by a later expansion from South America. We also detected genetic differences between the early settlers and the newcomers from South America, with almost no evidence of admixture. Our results add to our understanding of the initial peopling of the Caribbean and the movements of Archaic Age peoples in the Americas.
AB - The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans, but where they came from and how and when they reached the islands remain unclear. We generated genome-wide data for 93 ancient Caribbean islanders dating between 3200 and 400 calibrated years before the present and found evidence of at least three separate dispersals into the region, including two early dispersals into the Western Caribbean, one of which seems connected to radiation events in North America. This was followed by a later expansion from South America. We also detected genetic differences between the early settlers and the newcomers from South America, with almost no evidence of admixture. Our results add to our understanding of the initial peopling of the Caribbean and the movements of Archaic Age peoples in the Americas.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.aba8697
DO - 10.1126/science.aba8697
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32499399
VL - 369
SP - 456
EP - 460
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 6502
ER -