@article{Schroeder2018, abstract = {Significance Ancient DNA has revolutionized the field of archaeology, but in the Caribbean and other tropical regions of the world, the work has been hampered by poor DNA preservation. We present an ancient human genome from the Caribbean and use it to shed light on the early peopling of the islands. We demonstrate that the ancestors of the so-called “Taino” who inhabited large parts of the Caribbean in pre-Columbian times originated in northern South America, and we find evidence that they had a comparatively large effective population size. We also show that the native components in some modern Caribbean genomes are closely related to the ancient Taino, suggesting that indigenous ancestry in the region has survived through the present day.}, author = {Schroeder, Hannes and Sikora, Martin and Gopalakrishnan, Shyam and Cassidy, Lara M. and Maisano Delser, Pierpaolo and Sandoval Velasco, Marcela and Schraiber, Joshua G. and Rasmussen, Simon and Homburger, Julian R. and Ávila-Arcos, María C. and Allentoft, Morten E. and Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor and Renaud, Gabriel and Gómez-Carballa, Alberto and Laffoon, Jason E. and Hopkins, Rachel J. A. and Higham, Thomas F. G. and Carr, Robert S. and Schaffer, William C. and Day, Jane S. and Hoogland, Menno and Salas, Antonio and Bustamante, Carlos D. and Nielsen, Rasmus and Bradley, Daniel G. and Hofman, Corinne L. and Willerslev, Eske}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.1716839115}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, month = {feb}, pages = {2341-2346}, title = {Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716839115}, volume = {115}, year = {2018} }