🌍📘 Indigenous Caribbean Origins and Their Ancient Asian Ancestry Indigenous Caribbean groups such as the Taíno and Caribs share ancestry with the first peoples who entered the Americas between 15,000 and 25,000 years ago by crossing the Bering land bridge from Asia. Genetic research shows that all Native American ancestries descend from ancient East Asian lineages with added contributions from Ancient North Eurasians. Studies of ancient Taíno DNA link their origins to northern South America wh