A preprint based on my doctoral research "Ancient DNA reconstructs the genetic legacies of pre-contact Puerto Rico communities” is now available on Bioarxiv here. In this work we use paleogenomics to reconstruct the genetic diversity of ancient Indigenous peoples from Puerto Rico and examine their origins, their relationships to other ancient Caribbean communities and their genetic links to present-day Puerto Ricans. This work was conducted with an interdisciplinary team including anthropologists, archaeologists and genomic scientists based in Puerto Rico, the United States and Australia. I describe the main points of our work in this twitter thread which you can also access through thread reader here. I am very excited to see this project come to fruition! **Update Jan 2020**: This study is now published in Molecular Biology and Evolution Comments are closed.
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