Tracing Arawakan Southern Dispersal: Clues from Mitogenome Sequencing of Southern Amerinds

Xavier,C.; Simão,F.; Bodner,M.; Strobl,C.; Silva,D.; Barletta,C.; Casas-Vargas,A.; Usaquén,W.; Tineo,D.H.; Gusmão,L.; Parson,W.

South America’s colonization and internal migration routes remain unsolved issues for the scientiic community. The wide variety of different environmental settings and the amplitude of climate variations at the time of colonization might explain the big variation of different tribes and groups in South America, in contrast to it’s northern counterpart.