In this episode, we look at the information available about the evolution of the Indigenous peoples who first populated Puerto Rico, based on the most recent evidence, as well as their contribution to Taíno culture and, eventually, to our Puerto Rican identity.

For more information about this topic please see the primary references for this episode linked below:

• Current Perspectives in the Precolonial Archaeology of Puerto Rico: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335082724_Current_Perspectives_in_the_Precolonial_Archaeology_of_Puerto_Rico,


• Reconsidering the lives of the earliest Puerto Ricans: Mortuary Archaeology and bioarchaeology of the Ortiz site: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0284291&type=printable,


• Revision of the cultural chronology of precolonial Puerto Rico: A Bayesian approach: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282052&type=printable.

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