Columbus' accounts of the Caribbean include gory descriptions of fierce cannibals abducting and abusing women and eating men, and while most historians have regarded these stories as figments of Columbus’ imagination, a new study suggests the famous navigator might have been telling the truth.
Upending Longstanding Assumptions
A new paper titled Faces Divulge the Origins of Caribbean Prehistoric Inhabitants published yesterday (January 10th) on Scientific Reports , presents 3D imagery from the cranial version of facial recognition technology. The researchers analyzed the skulls of early Caribbean inhabitants revealing not only the relationships between different groups of people but they claim to have “upended longstanding assumptions” about how the islands were first colonized.
