תיקי DNA

Modern Puerto Rico: Continuity & Change

Island identities shaped by Taíno echoes, colonial upheaval, and modern genetic mosaics

• Puerto Rico
• 2000 CE

Paso del Indio Ceramic People

Ceramic-period communities of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico (650–1400 CE) — archaeology meets aDNA

• Puerto Rico (Paso del Indio, Vega Baja)
• 650 CE - 1400 CE

Punta Candelero: Coastal Ceramic World

Pottery, middens, and fragile DNA traces illuminate Humacao's 500–1050 CE coastal communities.

• Puerto Rico — Humacao (Punta Candelero)
• 500 CE - 1050 CE

Santa Elena Ceramic People

A fragmentary portrait of Puerto Rico’s 900–1300 CE coastal communities

• Santa Elena, Puerto Rico
• 900 CE - 1300 CE

Dominican_Ceramic

Taíno: Echoes of the Greater Antilles

Archaeology and ancient DNA illuminate a seafaring Arawakan world across islands

• Greater Antilles: DR, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Haiti
• 1400 BCE - 1650 CE