Early migration history of the Caribbean will surprise you!

Caribbean Community: Every place has a story which defines its people and history. This story can change the meaning of many lives, whereas it can tell you where do you belong or not?

Recent studies confirmed that Intruders closely vanished the foremost population of Caribbean community than Spanish. This study has the most substantial proof that is of DNA Analysis.

Credit goes to Genetic Technology

From many years, Archeologists and researchers have struggled to find out the history of a place where there are more than 700 islands, the Caribbean community. New genetic data reveals that the first generation of Caribbean has been vanished by the invaders thousand years before the Spanish invasion that began in 1492.  

By studying the fossils, researchers have concluded that surge of pottery-making farmers known as ‘Ceramic Age people’ who set out in canoes from the northeastern coast of South America originating some 2,500 years ago island-hopped across the Caribbean. They were not, however, the first generation. On multiple islands, they faced a foraging people who visited some 6,000 or 7,000 years ago from the shorelines of Central America and northern South America.

The genetic material is extracted from the bones which are found in the individual fossils. DNA from bones in temperate, wet places like the Caribbean was impossible until a few years ago. The credit goes to the latest genetic technology, that extracted DNA from 174 individuals shovelled at Venezuela sites to the Bahamas. 

After the analysis of DNA fragments, it has been proved that the foremost generation deteriorated earlier than Spanish arrived.

What do Archeologists have to say?

An archaeologist of Florida Museum, Natural History William Keegan said that “The remarkable thing is that the Archaic way of life seems to survive in western Cuba until about 900 C.E.”

On the other hand, Anthropologist Miguel Vilar said that “This was a dynamic and interconnected region of the world.”

We have been believed that Spanish were the invaders who came first in the Caribbean, but it is not valid. Science will continue to find our stories and astonish us at every moment.

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