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12 de octubre: cómo se poblaron las islas del Caribe hace al menos 7.000 años

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By Matthew Napolitano, Jessica Stone, Robert DiNapoli, Scott M. Fitzpatrick
| Yahoo Verified
¿Cómo se poblaron las paradisiacas islas del Caribe? Para los millones de personas de todo el mundo que viven en islas hoy en día, un avión o un barco pueden transportarlos fácilmente al continente o a otras islas. Pero, ¿cómo llegaron las personas del pasado antiguo a islas distantes que ni siquiera podían ver desde donde vivían?
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Archaeologists determined the step-by-step path taken by the first people to settle the Caribbean islands Original

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By Matthew Napolitano, Jessica Stone, Robert DiNapoli, Scott M. Fitzpatrick
| The Conversation Verified
For the millions of people around the world who live on islands today, a plane or boat can easily enough carry them to the mainland or other islands. But how did people in the ancient past first make it to distant islands they couldn’t even see from home? Many islands around the world can be reached only by traveling hundreds or even thousands of miles across open water, yet nearly all islands that people live on were settled by between 800 to 1,000 years ago.
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Reevaluating human colonization of the Caribbean using chronometric hygiene and Bayesian modeling

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By Matthew Napolitano, Robert DiNapoli, Jessica Stone, Maureece Levin
| Science Magazine Verified
Abstract Human settlement of the Caribbean represents the only example in the Americas of peoples colonizing islands that were not visible from surrounding mainland areas or other islands. Unfortunately, many interpretive models have relied on radiocarbon determinations that do not meet standard criteria for reporting because they lack critical information or sufficient provenience, often leading to specious interpretations.
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Disproving claims for small-bodied humans in the Palauan archipelago

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By Jessica Stone, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Matthew Napolitano, Nicholas P. Jew
| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
& . . Archaeological data recovery for the compact road, Babeldaob Island, Republic of Palau . . : . & . . Collagen survival and its use for species identification in Holocene–Lower Pleistocene bone fragments from British archaeological and paleontological sites . : – . , , & . . Species identification by analysis of bone collagen using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry . : –54. . Cultural and natural patterning in prehistoric marine foodshell from Palau, Micronesia.
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