New paper: Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean

I am very excited to announce the publication of our recent paper Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean published in Science Magazine. In this work I collaborated with a large team of geneticists and archaeologists led by Kathrin Nägele (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) and Hannes Schroeder (University of Copenhagen), and including researchers from the USA, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Europe. In this work we recover and analyze ancient paleogenomes from 93 ancient individuals who lived in several Caribbean islands between 3,200-400 years before present. Read the full text of the paper in Science and Lizzie Wade's excellent press coverage of our work for Science Magzine: Ancient DNA reveals diverse origins of Caribbean’s earliest inhabitants.

To see Kathrin's excellent video abstract of the paper, describing the study's main findings, click here:

My role in this work was featured in the following press coverage:

1) El Nuevo Día

I was interviewed for the article Expuesto el origen de los primeros pobladores written by AAAS Mass Media Fellow Kevin Alicea Torres for El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico's main newspaper (available for download here). This article describes how our work and the work of other colleagues are changing understanding of Puerto Rico's pre-contact history.

2) ASU Now

Anne C. Stone and I were interviewed by Taylor Woods for her article New data unveils ancestry of first peoples to inhabit Caribbean published in ASU Now