Stephanie Sherman, a member of the Arayeke Yukayek Taíno tribe, created the petition a week ago in response to Christie’s “Pre-Columbian Art & Taíno Masterworks” auction scheduled for ...

British and Puerto Rican archaeologists are now rediscovering the spiritual heart of that culture – the world’s largest concentration of Taino art, located on a tiny and remote uninhabited ...

However, the researchers used the tooth of a woman found in a cave on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas to sequence the first complete ancient human genome from the Caribbean. The woman lived ...

who lived at least 500 years before Columbus set foot in the Bahamas. The results provided insights into the genetic makeup of the Taino and provided clear evidence that their bloodline still ...