Caves were absolutely central to Taino religion and society. According to Taino mythology, caves were where the first humans came from. They were also the places where the sun and the moon were ...

More than 1,000 years before the Spaniards arrived, local shamans and other pilgrims visited such caves to glimpse the future, to pray for rain and to draw surreal images on the walls with ...

The caves themselves are small and accessible to anyone from the roadside. Some of the images have been irreparably scratched, as if someone has tried to erase them from history.

From ancient petroglyphs secreted away in caves by the sea to sacred ceremonial centers in the mountains, this 40-mile-long trail explores the culture of the island’s Indigenous Taíno community ...

For Taínos like Mukaro Agueybana, Guaktuke Ini Inaru, and Tekina-eirú, Indigenous roots are more than just heritage. It is the path that they walk, one that has real-world implications.

Her grandparents and their grandparents were told that the Taíno did not perish and that some hid in the caves and mountains. Some married Europeans and Africans, Colon said.

Meet the survivors of a ‘paper genocide’ A leader of the indigenous Caribbeans known as the Taíno describes how his people’s history was erased—and what they’re doing to get it back.

A groundbreaking study of ancient cave paintings in Puerto Rico has pushed back the record of precolonial cultures on the archipelago. Some of the oldest pictographs sampled date to between 740BC ...

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