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First Lithic Age Caribbean genomes document pre-Ceramic genetic continuity and affinities to Central America and northern South America

2026-05-13

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The population history of the Caribbean’s first inhabitants has been challenging to reconstruct because few human remains are known from the region’s earliest occupation which began around 6,000 years ago in Hispaniola, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. We generated genome-wide data from 19 individuals from Hispaniola’s Samaná Peninsula and focused on four who lived during the earliest pre-Ceramic “Lithic Age”. Extending the...

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Literature Corpus work: f79885ec-8371-529d-a882-2d5f9e87f54d
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.12.724636

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