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| Illustration of one of the early settlers in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Sea served as a kind of ‘aquatic highway’ that connected the islands with the mainland. Illustration: Tom Björklund. |
According to a new study by an international team of researchers from the Caribbean, Europe and North America, led by Cosimo Posth, of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, humans were busy populating the Caribbean islands from North and South America at around the time the Bronze Age pastoralists who wrote the Bible were recording their origin myths. These myths include that of a global mass genocide and repopulation of a sterile world from 8 survivors, just a few thousand years ago.
This report comes soon after news that a link has been established between Native Americans and people who lived around Lake Baikal, in central Siberia, about 40,000 years ago.
According to a press release from University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Science:
The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans. Now, a new study published in the journal Science sheds new light on how the islands were settled thousands of years ago.
Using ancient DNA, a team of archaeologists and geneticists led by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History found evidence of at least three population dispersals that brought people to the region.
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More data, more details
The researchers analysed the genomes of 93 ancient Caribbean islanders who lived between 400 and 3200 years ago using bone fragments excavated by Caribbean archaeologists from 16 archaeological sites across the region.
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The researchers found genetic differences between the early settlers and the newcomers from South America who, according to archaeological evidence, entered the region around 2800 years ago.
The new data give us a fascinating glimpse of the early migration history of the Caribbean. We find evidence that the islands were settled and resettled several times from different parts of the American mainland.
An analysis of this DNA data showed that there were at least 3 successive waves of migration with at least one from South America, showing that the people on the mainland had successfully populated both North and South America and had established cultures capable of sea-faring travel. The South American immigrants entered the region about 2800 years ago, by which time they had diversified both genetically and culturally from the first two waves from the north. There is evidence that they remained distinct and separate, with little admixing between the different groups.Hannes Schroeder, Senior author.
Associate Professor at the Globe Institute,
University of Copenhagen
Associate Professor at the Globe Institute,
University of Copenhagen
The group's findings were published 3 days ago in Science.
Abstract
The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans, but how, when, and from where they reached the islands remains unclear. We generated genome-wide data for 93 ancient Caribbean islanders dating between 3200-400 cal. BP and find evidence of at least three separate dispersals into the region, including two early dispersals into the Western Caribbean, one of which seems connected to radiation events in North America. This was followed by a later expansion from South America. We also detect genetic differences between the early settlers and the newcomers from South America with almost no evidence of admixture. Our results add to our understanding of the initial peopling of the Caribbean and the movements of Archaic Age peoples in the Americas.
Kathrin Nägele, Cosimo Posth, Miren Iraeta Orbegozo, Yadira Chinique de Armas, Silvia Teresita Hernández Godoy, Ulises M. González Herrera, Maria A. Nieves-Colón, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Rita Radzeviciute, Jason Laffoon, William J. Pestle, Jazmin Ramos-Madrigal, Thiseas C. Lamnidis, William C. Schaffer, Robert S. Carr, Jane S. Day, Carlos Arredondo Antúnez, Armando Rangel Rivero, Antonio J. Martínez-Fuentes, Edwin Crespo-Torres, Ivan Roksandic, Anne C. Stone, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Menno Hoogland, Mirjana Roksandic, Corinne L. Hofman, Johannes Krause, Hannes Schroeder.
Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean.
Science, 2020; eaba8697 DOI: 10.1126/science.aba8697
Copyright © 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Reprinted by kind permission under licence #4843610872973
It hardly needs to be said, that, if these successive waves of immigration into the Caribbean Islands can be detected in DNA, there must have been considerable time for evolutionary diversification between the different groups since they left Siberia, and this is born out by these research findings.
Once again, casually and without any intention of doing so, objective science has falsified the Bible since this degree of expansion and diversification out of the Middle East would have been impossible in just a few thousand years. Of course, it would be very unfair to blame the Bible's authors for this sort of error, as they were completely unaware of anything outside their small, flat world where all the animals lived a day or two's walk away and the number of known species was tiny. Places like Siberia, North and South America and the Caribbean might as well have been on another planet for all the Bible's authors knew of them. Tweet
I notice you don't actually quote from the bible anywhere in your "debunking", which is a bit strange.
ReplyDeleteAre you not familiar with the Bible? If you have a copy, have a read through the first book, called Genesis where yoou will see a tale about how everyone is descended from 8 survivors of a global genocide. Creationists date this to about 4,000 years ago, which is clearly preposterous given when this research shows. I'm sorry if this upsets you.
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