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Emily Kracht

Pottery vessel against a white background

Cultural Heritage

Indigenous communities used the Caribbean Sea as an aquatic highway

June 22, 2022

With some 7,000 islands and cays and a 7,000-year history of human habitation, the Caribbean Sea is practically synonymous with…Read More

Taíno sisters and a child mold clay to make pottery and knead cassava dough for bread

Cultural Heritage

Clear as mud: The origins of early pottery in the Lucayan Islands

January 11, 2022

In our last “Talking Taino” we described a variety of ways that meals were prepared without clay pots. The invention…Read More

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