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The Taino People of the Caribbean Are NOT Extinct

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« Reply #45 on: March 01, 2008, 10:38:10 am »









One of the questions we are frequently asked is,

"Where did they bury their dead?"

Unfortunately, we do not have a complete answer.

In some places the Tainos buried their dead in cemeteries.

At El Chorro de Ma’ta in Cuba and Maisabel in Puerto Rico, the dead were buried beneath
the central plaza. This burial location reflects a close association of the dead with their
ancestral homeland. Knowledge of previous burials at Maisabel was so complete that, des-
pite hundreds of interments over a period of 800 years, not one disturbed a previous burial.

Evidence for formal cemeteries is lacking from the Bahama archipelago. To date, all of the
burials in the Bahamas have been found in caves.

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