{"id":60471,"date":"2021-01-05T00:56:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T00:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60471"},"modified":"2021-01-05T00:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T00:56:55","slug":"ancient-dna-shows-humans-settled-caribbean-in-2-distinct-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60471","title":{"rendered":"Ancient DNA Shows Humans Settled Caribbean in 2 Distinct Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/23\/science\/dna-caribbean-islands.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Ancient DNA Shows Humans Settled Caribbean in 2 Distinct Waves<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2020-12-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carlzimmer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Carl Zimmer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/23\/science\/dna-caribbean-islands.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/12\/29\/science\/23SCI-CARIBBEAN-DNA1\/23SCI-CARIBBEAN-DNA1-superJumbo-v2.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ta%C3%ADno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ta\u00edno<\/a> ceramic vessels from eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dominican Republic<\/a>, circa A.D. 1400. <em>Menno Hoogland\/Leiden University<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Millions of people living on the islands today inherited genes from the people who made them home before Europeans arrived.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare4ppl.com\/physician\/north-carolina\/kinston\/juan-r-aviles-1417283268.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Juan Aviles<\/a> went to school in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Puerto Rico<\/a>, teachers taught him that the original people of the island, the Taino, vanished soon after Spain colonized it. Violence, disease and forced labor wiped them out, destroying their culture and language, the teachers said, and the colonizers repopulated the island with enslaved people, including Indigenous people from Central and South America and Africans.<\/p>\n<p>But at home, Dr. Aviles heard another story. His grandmother would tell him that they were descended from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ta%C3%ADno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taino<\/a> ancestors and that some of the words they used also descended from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ta%C3%ADno_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taino language<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, you know, my grandmother had to drop out of school at second grade, so I didn\u2019t trust her initially,\u201d said Dr. Aviles, now a physician in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goldsboro,_North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goldsboro, N.C.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Aviles, who studied genetics in graduate school, has become active in using it to help connect people in the Caribbean with their genealogical history. And recent research in the field has led him to recognize that his grandmother was onto something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/23\/science\/dna-caribbean-islands.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people living on the islands today inherited genes from the people who made them home before Europeans arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,2039,459,8,3015],"tags":[16695,31258,31259,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-60471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-carl-zimmer","tag-juan-aviles","tag-juan-r-aviles","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60474,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60471\/revisions\/60474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}