Top 10 Top 10 Taino Legacies
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1. Barbecue
The Tainos liked to cook their meat and fish over barbacoas , outdoor charcoal-fueled grills.
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2. Bohío
A rectangular house of wooden walls and thatched roof, widely seen in rural areas and villages.
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3. Canoe
One of many Taino words (canoa ) and inventions still in use today.
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4. Cassava
A mainstay of the pre-Columbian diet, this root is poisonous unless properly prepared into flour.
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5. Hammock
The Taino hamaca was the favored sleeping arrangement, raising its occupants above rats and other pests.
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6. Hurricane
Huracán was an awe-inspiring god, symbolizing the terrifying power and violence of the natural world.
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7. Petroglyphs
The carvings of human faces, animals, and abstract forms scratched onto rock, often in caves.
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8. Pictographs
Drawings, usually made with charcoal against a pale rockface, showing everyday and spiritual imagery.
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9. Tobacco
The Taino revenge on the Western world: the addictive and dangerous habit of smoking tabaco .
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10. Zemis
Idols or fetishes representing the many spirits, ancestral and natural, which the Tainos devoutly and religiously worshipped.
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