Arqueological treasure in Santa Isabel
Enviado el 9 marzo 2006 - 4:55pm
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Archaeologist Jorge Arturo Rodriguez added that they found an area that was used as wasteland, where they recovered pieces of pottery, stones and bird bones.
"We are documenting and rescuing the 100% (of the deposit)", stressed Rodriguez and he added that the found elements are signals that make them suspect that the place "was occupied for a long time or that it was quite a great village ".
Anthropologist Edwin Crespo suggested that the University of Puerto Rico guards the material, at the same time demanding that the government builds a museum of indigenous cultures.
"Puerto Rico is a country with 3.000 years of history and it does not have a museum of indigenous cultures", said Crespo, who added that "it is necessary" to foment investigations on these cultures.
"When one finds an archaeological site it opens a new page in our history", he emphasized. He said that in Puerto Rico archaeologists do not have a place where to take these pieces to be studied and that many people keep indigenous pieces in their residences.