The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus.

Jalil Sued-Badillo, Ĭrving Rouse

The American Historical Review · 1994 · 319 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

A noted archaeologist and anthropologist tells the story of the Tainos of the northern Caribbean islands, from their ancestry on the South American continent to their rapid decline after contact with the Spanish explorers.