Highly recommended viewing: Lost Kingdoms of Central America. Part 2: The People Who Greeted Columbus.

If you haven't been watching the BBC documentary 'Lost Kingdoms of Central America', then try catching it on BBC iPlayer.

Dr Jago Cooper explores the rise and fall of the forgotten civilisations of central America.

This episode - The People Who Greeted Columbus - explores the culture of the Taino people of the Caribbean, the first people of the Americas to greet Christopher Columbus. The Taino had a multicultural society, with drug-infused rituals, strange skulls and amazing navigation. 

He also studies the cave paintings, or pictographs, which researchers believe depicted their origin myth. In one cave alone, there are over 1200 paintings, using pigment and binded by faunal and floral substances, and created by brush and finger fluting.

To view more on the archaeology and rock art of the Americas:

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/south_america/index.php

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/america/index.php

To view Lost Kingdoms of Central America:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer