Marién, Maguá, Maguana, Xaraguá and Higüey — the dense chiefdom world Columbus blundered into.
Population collapsed from hundreds of thousands to a few thousand by the 1530s; survivors were absorbed into colonial society.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Taíno (Hispaniola) — the shape you scrub through changes in 250 BC · 1503 · 1519.
The standard archaeological-ethnohistorical synthesis on Taíno origins, society, and collapse, by the leading authority on Caribbean prehistory.
The essential contemporary eyewitness denunciation of the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola, source for the Xaragua and Higüey massacres and the demographic catastrophe.
Keegan's scholarly account of Taíno society, chiefship, and the encounter with Columbus on Hispaniola.
A rigorous critique of the demographic models used to estimate the catastrophic collapse of the Taino and other contact-era Native populations.
The richly illustrated El Museo del Barrio exhibition catalogue giving material culture, cosmology, and daily life of the Hispaniola Taíno.