Indian Ceramics

Dominican Republic Artifacts


John Foster, State Archaeologist of California, analyzing ceramic and other artifact remains in Dominican Republic.




Ceramic Styles
The Taino Indians had a very distict style to the ceramics that they produced prior to the arrival of Columbus. It is evident that their ceramic technology may have changed or been influenced by the more pristine European ceramics.

Ceramic Manufacturing
Predominant features associated with known Taino Indian sites reveal evidence of how they may have produced their ceramics.











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