Anthropomorphic stone pestle, ca. 7th - 15th century ·  Greater Antilles, Taino · ID: 3052561

Description

heavy greyish brown rock,

The Taino were an Arawak people who were indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. At the time of Columbus’ arrival in 1492, they were the principal inhabitants of most of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (presently Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles. After the arrival of the Spaniards they suffered from warfare and harsh enslavery by the colonists. Above all from infectious diseases to which they had no immunity. Only a few decades aftter the Conquista they became extinct as a culture

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