id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_3ttrf3euejbfnh4xeeb2fviggq Jago Cooper 'The Mona Chronicle': the archaeology of early religious encounter in the New World 2016 18 .pdf application/pdf 6618 640 58 Keywords: Caribbean, Isla de Mona, cave art, finger-fluting, inscription, iconography, island's caves provides an opportunity to study personal responses to an indigenous ritual Hispaniola (native name Hayti) and Puerto Rico (Borinquen), Isla de Mona (Amona) played Accounts of Mona in early colonial documents (Samson & Cooper 2015b) identify Archaeological evidence of an indigenous presence on Mona spans over 5000 years (Dávila Indigenous iconography from cave 18 showing ancestral beings and anthrozoomorphic figures. study of past human activity on Isla de Mona—has revealed that Mona's caves provided More than 30 historic inscriptions in cave 18 include phrases in Latin and Spanish, names, Mona from the neighbouring Spanish colonies of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. Christian cross in a niche of cave 18, directly facing an indigenous ancestral figure. (University of Puerto Rico-Rı́o Piedras), the Instituto de Cultural Puertorriqueña, Departamento de Recursos Indigenous cave use, Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico, in ./cache/work_3ttrf3euejbfnh4xeeb2fviggq.pdf ./txt/work_3ttrf3euejbfnh4xeeb2fviggq.txt