Authors: Hannes Schroeder, Martin Sikora, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Lara M. Cassidy, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Marcela Sandoval Velasco, Joshua G. Schraiber, Simon Rasmussen, Julian R. Homburger, María C. Ávila-Arcos, Morten E. Allentoft, J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Gabriel Renaud, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Jason E. Laffoon, Rachel J A Hopkins, Thomas Higham, Robert S. Carr, William C. Schaffer, Jane S. Day, Menno L. P. Hoogland, Antonio Salas, Carlos Bustamante, Rasmus Nielsen, Daniel G. Bradley, Corinne L. Hofman, Eske Willerslev
Venue: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Type: Publication
Abstract: The Caribbean was one of the last parts of the Americas to be settled by humans, but how and when the islands were first occupied remains a matter of debate. Ancient DNA can help answering these questions, but the work has been hampered by poor DNA preservation. We report the genome sequence of a 1,000-year-old Lucayan Taino individual recovered from the site of Preacher’s Cave in the Bahamas. We sequenced her genome to 12.4-fold coverage and show that she is genetically most closely related to present-day Arawakan speakers from northern Sout...
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Topics: 
Evolutionary biology
Archaeology
Ethnology
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