Greater Antillean chiefdoms of caciques and cemí idols, ringed plazas and stone-lined ball courts, descended from Saladoid settlers.
Met Columbus in 1492; devastated within a generation by disease, enslavement and war, though their genes and words survive.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Taíno (Chican Ostionoid) — the shape you scrub through changes in 600 · 1001.
The classic account of Taíno origins, society, and collapse after 1492.
A focused study of Taíno cosmology and ritual in the Greater Antilles.