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10-12-2007, 03:21 PM
Moca original settlers were multiethnic and not entirely of Spanish descent as originally thought. The finding earlier this week of 18th century death certificates with Dutch, English, Spanish and even African names and skeletons and artifacts at a colonial style cemetery have townspeople looking into where their ancestors came from. Also, it proves the town could be much older than previously thought, as the registry shows persons born in 1722.
Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, director of the Museum of Dominican Man, who is heading the investigations, told Diario Libre that the new migrants would later become the ancestors of small farmers that relocated throughout the rest of the Cibao, as reported in Diario Libre.
Studies on the remains themselves have begun with samples sent to Italian anthropologist Alfredo Coppa at the Sapienza University in Rome, Raphael Panhuysen of the Leiden University in Holland and to the state of Florida for forensic testing. During a press conference, bones, nails, bricks, dental pieces and other items were shown to the public. In all, 37 skeletons have been identified by initial studies but the estimate is that there could be around 100 skeletons in all. Only 6 of the skeletons have been removed for investigations. The remaining skeletons will be left in place, but the burial sites will be maintained.
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Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, director of the Museum of Dominican Man, who is heading the investigations, told Diario Libre that the new migrants would later become the ancestors of small farmers that relocated throughout the rest of the Cibao, as reported in Diario Libre.
Studies on the remains themselves have begun with samples sent to Italian anthropologist Alfredo Coppa at the Sapienza University in Rome, Raphael Panhuysen of the Leiden University in Holland and to the state of Florida for forensic testing. During a press conference, bones, nails, bricks, dental pieces and other items were shown to the public. In all, 37 skeletons have been identified by initial studies but the estimate is that there could be around 100 skeletons in all. Only 6 of the skeletons have been removed for investigations. The remaining skeletons will be left in place, but the burial sites will be maintained.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)