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10-09-2007, 01:30 PM
The remains uncovered at the Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Moca will be sent to the University of Indiana, in the US and Leiden, in Holland, for DNA, Carbon 14 and pathological studies. Diario Libre writes the studies will be done with the cooperation of the Dominican Museum of Man. Rafhael Panhuysen, a forensic pathologist in Holland, will be in charge of the studies at Leiden. At the moment 37 burials have been identified at the park and construction has been halted until the excavation is finished. On Friday the Museum of Dominican Man held a press conference and released the names of the original families that founded Moca in 1722. Many of the death certificates for the families were held in the archives of the church. Diario Libre writes that six memorial tombs will be built in memory of the original settlers and Guarocuya Cabral, mayor of Moca, said that the 6 memorial tombs will help preserve the city's history.
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