NewsWhore
12-01-2008, 02:30 PM
The steep slope did not bother Rafo Sanchez who at 200 meters above sea level, without getting excited or losing a drop of sweat, took long steps along a ridge named after a relative of his.
"Before, I used to come up here to plant tobacco" he said, and at nearly 60 years of age he has learned to take a different product from the earth.
These are pieces of incredible archaeological value that are found underneath a hundred mounds spread out on this hill called Julio Martinez on the north slope of the Cordillera Septentrional, and recently documented by experts from the Museum of Dominican Man (MHD) and the Italian university La Sapienza of Rome.
According to Jorge Ulloa, an archaeologist with the MHD, "this is the most important find in the Northwest of Hispaniola, an area little studied until now."
Ulloa is joined by Adriano Rivera, Petrucci Giovanni, Alicia Angeletti and Alfredo Coppa on the dig site where they are studying over 35 pre-Columbian formations that suggest the presence of a very high population density, extending into present-day Haiti.
The most relevant aspect is that the excavations could confirm the co-existence of Tainos and Macoriges (from Macorix), two of the main indigenous communities that lived on the island before the arrival of the Spanish.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)
"Before, I used to come up here to plant tobacco" he said, and at nearly 60 years of age he has learned to take a different product from the earth.
These are pieces of incredible archaeological value that are found underneath a hundred mounds spread out on this hill called Julio Martinez on the north slope of the Cordillera Septentrional, and recently documented by experts from the Museum of Dominican Man (MHD) and the Italian university La Sapienza of Rome.
According to Jorge Ulloa, an archaeologist with the MHD, "this is the most important find in the Northwest of Hispaniola, an area little studied until now."
Ulloa is joined by Adriano Rivera, Petrucci Giovanni, Alicia Angeletti and Alfredo Coppa on the dig site where they are studying over 35 pre-Columbian formations that suggest the presence of a very high population density, extending into present-day Haiti.
The most relevant aspect is that the excavations could confirm the co-existence of Tainos and Macoriges (from Macorix), two of the main indigenous communities that lived on the island before the arrival of the Spanish.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)