The TaĆno grew cassava and yams as staple foods, along with corn (maize), beans, squash, tobacco, peanuts (groundnuts), and peppers. They practiced shifting agriculture and used a method of burning forests or scrub and creating mounds of ashes and soil for planting, tending, and irrigating crops. The only domesticated animals were dogs and, occasionally, parrots used to decoy wild birds within range of hunters.
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