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Ancient Skeleton Reveals 'Extinct' Caribbean Islanders Were Never Really Wiped Out
« on: February 26, 2018, 04:35:59 am »

Ancient Skeleton Reveals 'Extinct' Caribbean Islanders Were Never Really Wiped Out

Their legacy lives on!
PETER DOCKRILL
20 FEB 2018

They were called the Taíno, and the Europeans who colonised their land took almost everything away from them.

A half-century after Christopher Columbus set foot upon the New World, these decimated natives of the Caribbean – who once numbered somewhere in the hundreds of thousands – had declined to fewer than 500, ravaged by disease, enslavement, and worse.

https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-skeleton-of-extinct-caribbean-islanders-reveals-genetic-legacy-lives-on-taino-lucayan
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Re: Ancient Skeleton Reveals 'Extinct' Caribbean Islanders Were Never Really Wiped Out
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2018, 08:52:30 am »
Well, there goes the genocide narrative.
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