🌍📘 Indigenous Caribbean Origins and Their Ancient Asian Ancestry Indigenous Caribbean groups such as the Taíno and Caribs share ancestry with the first peoples who entered the Americas between 15,000 and 25,000 years ago by crossing the Bering land bridge from Asia. Genetic research shows that all Native American ancestries descend from ancient East Asian lineages with added contributions from Ancient North Eurasians. Studies of ancient Taíno DNA link their origins to northern South America wh

More than eleven thousand years ago, an infant was laid to rest at a small seasonal camp in what is now central Alaska. Her remains, discovered at the Upward Sun River site, would later change how scientists understand the earliest people in the Americas. Genetic testing revealed that this child belonged to a previously unknown population now called the ancient Beringians. Her DNA showed a lineage that split from the ancestors of other Native Americans around twenty thousand years ago, long befo