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Palau’s first settlers arrived ~3,200 years ago already carrying 40% Papuan ancestry — centuries before similar mixing happened elsewhere in the Pacific. New ancient DNA research rewrites the archipelago’s founding story. #Paleoanthropology #AncientDNA #PacificPrehistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/palaus-first-settlers-were-already

Palau’s First Settlers Were Already a Mixed Population Before They Arrived

New ancient DNA research overturns assumptions about when Pacific peoples began mixing — and reveals nearly 3,000 years of unbroken genetic continuity in the western Pacific.

Anthropology.net