Early Occupations of the Mountainous Interior of Puerto Rico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Coloring Outside the Lines: Re-situating Understandings of the Lifeways of Earliest Peoples of the Circum-Caribbean" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Recent excavations conducted in three cave sites in north-central Puerto Rico have revealed that human occupation of the mountainous interior of the island took place much earlier than previously thought. The available evidence, recovered from Cueva del Abono, Cueva Matos, and Cueva Ventana, has shown that important developments in the Indigenous history of Puerto Rico such as the origins of food production, pottery manufacture, and the development of rock art traditions were manifested in the central part of the island since its earliest phases of occupation. In this presentation, the evidence that has been recovered thus far will be presented in order to address its implications for our current understanding of the discoverers of the island.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Coloring Outside the Lines: Re-situating Understandings of the Lifeways of Earliest Peoples of the Circum-Caribbean   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39354.0