Recent Research at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico

This symposium presents the latest results of analyses realized by the Proyecto Arqueológico del Centro Ceremonial de Tibes, Puerto Rico. Tibes is the earliest known civic-ceremonial center in the Greater Antilles and has been interpreted as one of the earliest political and economic centers in the Caribbean and first site of institutionalized stratification in the region. The main purpose of our research is the study of the social and cultural factors that led to the development of this center. The symposium includes presentations on recent excavations and findings of paleoethnobotanical, faunal, lithic, osteological, bioarchaeological, and regional analyses.