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Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean

Published:2020-06-04 Issue:6502 Volume:369 Page:456-460
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Nägele Kathrin¹^ORCID,Posth Cosimo¹²^ORCID,Iraeta Orbegozo Miren³^ORCID,Chinique de Armas Yadira⁴^ORCID,Hernández Godoy Silvia Teresita⁵⁶,González Herrera Ulises M.⁷,Nieves-Colón Maria A.⁸^ORCID,Sandoval-Velasco Marcela³^ORCID,Mylopotamitaki Dorothea³^ORCID,Radzeviciute Rita¹^ORCID,Laffoon Jason⁹^ORCID,Pestle William J.¹⁰^ORCID,Ramos-Madrigal Jazmin³^ORCID,Lamnidis Thiseas C.¹^ORCID,Schaffer William C.¹¹¹²,Carr Robert S.¹³^ORCID,Day Jane S.¹⁴,Arredondo Antúnez Carlos¹⁵,Rangel Rivero Armando¹⁵,Martínez-Fuentes Antonio J.¹⁵,Crespo-Torres Edwin¹⁶,Roksandic Ivan⁴^ORCID,Stone Anne C.⁸¹²^ORCID,Lalueza-Fox Carles¹⁷^ORCID,Hoogland Menno⁹¹⁸^ORCID,Roksandic Mirjana⁴,Hofman Corinne L.⁹¹⁸^ORCID,Krause Johannes¹^ORCID,Schroeder Hannes³⁹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.

2. Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

3. The Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

4. Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

5. Grupo de Investigación y Desarrollo, Dirección Provincial de Cultura, Matanzas, Cuba.

6. Universidad de Matanzas, Matanzas, Cuba.

7. Departamento de Arqueología, Instituto Cubano de Antropología, Havana, Cuba.

8. School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

9. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.

10. Department of Anthropology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.

11. Liberal Arts Department, Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

12. Center for Bioarchaeological Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

13. Archaeological and Historical Conservancy Inc., Davie, FL, USA.

14. Research Atlantica Inc., Boca Raton, FL, USA.

15. Museo Antropológico Montané, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de La Habana, Havana, Cuba.

16. Departamento de Sociología y Antropología, Universidad de Puerto Rico Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

17. Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)–Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

18. Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, Netherlands.

Abstract

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.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Humanities in the European Research Area

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

European Research Council

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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