Who First Made the Caribbean Home?
An archaeologist recounts collaborations with geneticists to map the 6,000-year ancestry of Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.
William F. Keegan
William F. Keegan has been studying Caribbean archaeology for the past 40 years. He is the curator of Caribbean archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a professor of anthropology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA. He is a co-author of The Caribbean Before Columbus (with Corinne L. Hofman) and a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology (with Corinne L. Hofman and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos).