Ancient Islanders Visited by Columbus Not 'Extinct,' Study Finds
By sequencing DNA in a 1,000-year-old tooth, researchers were able to find genetic matches between ancient and living populations in the Caribbean.
By Sarah Gibbens
PUBLISHED February 20, 2018
When Christopher Columbus reached the Caribbean in the 15th century, indigenous communities referred to as TaÃnos were heavily impacted—so much so that the region's history is often divided by historians as pre- and post-arrival.
A combination of disease, mass killings, and slavery killed as many as three million people in only a few generations, but a new study suggests that the genocide didn't lead to complete extinction as some suspected.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/taino-caribbean-indigenous-groups-ancient-dna-spd/
