Important discovery in Bayahibe

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Apparently people were making pottery in the DR many centuries before the Taino Indians. Such a discovery has apparently been made in the area of Bayahibe Point in the south east of the Dominican Republic. Spokesman Marcio Veloz Maggiolo said that his archeological team had submitted pieces gathered at the site in Bayahibe for radiocarbon dating, and the results showed that groups of hunter-gatherers were living in the area around 2000 BC and that later groups arriving around 1500 BC used pottery. Veloz Maggiolo said that the finds pointed to one group that was a typical hunter-gatherer and another that made weights for fishing nets and artifacts from conch and coral that were used to grate foods. According to the anthropologist, the finds are possibly the oldest in the Caribbean and reveal a transition period that is not completely documented. Archeological finds in eastern Cuba, the south of the Dominican Republic and the east of Puerto Rico date from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD. Veloz Maggiolo says that the details of the pottery and other artifacts seem to suggest that the immigration was not from the coast of present-day Venezuela.

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