The genealogy of Maria de Aguilar: evidence of admixture in the early Spanish Colony in Costa Rica

 

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Autors: Morera, Bernal, Meléndez Obando, Mauricio
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Estat:Versión publicada
Data de publicació:2010
Descripció:The genealogy of Maria de Aguilar: evidence of admixture in the early Spanish Colony in Costa Rica. During long time, historians and genealogists have interpreted that the elite that emerged during the Spanish Conquest was almost exclusively European. We reconstructed a deep matrilineal genealogy which includes recent Costa Rican ex-presidents and religious authorities back to their ancestors at the early 17th century, and compared their historic ethnic affinities with genetic mitochondrial evidence of some living descendents. The observed DNA lineage has an Amerindian ancestry. Such results point out that an Amerindian gene flow had occurred into the Spanish group during the first generations of colonial society. This conclusion do not support the current idea that the Spanish elite avoided interethnic marriages.
Pais:Portal de Revistas UNED
Institution:Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNED
Idioma:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.investiga.uned.ac.cr:article/220
Accés en línia:https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/220
Paraula clau:mtDNA lineages
genealogical record
ethnic history
admixture
Costa Rica.
Linajes de ADNmit
genealogía
historia étnica
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