THE ROUND I .- Explorations and field activities
In September 2003, Eng. Orlando Alvarez de la Paz, a member of the Speleological Society of Cuba, reported the discovery of an important archaeological site on the right bank of the river Zaza, municipality Cabaiguán of Sancti Spiritus province in central-southern region of Cuba.
The site is located in Taurino peasant farm Francisco Pérez Pérez. Its location was made possible through the collection of evidence of clear-native-bill, which made the owner and reported immediately.
useful Within two spheres were lytic in good condition, a bell-shaped pestle artefactual and several rock hammers tough.
On March 28, 2004 are continued field work in the company of elementary students Elianis Álvarez Alejandro Álvarez Hernández and Sergio Garcia, in addition to the peasant Ferro Wilfredo Paredes, led by Orlando Alvarez de la Paz. In this time you perform a thorough exploration of the site and its surroundings, confirming the existence of a highly eroded mound, where the outcrop of the archaeological material was significantly larger than in the rest of the area. Controlled collection was performed of the evidence, which allowed an idea of \u200b\u200bthe layout of the same in the archaeological Wastewalker and determination of surface area of \u200b\u200b3000 square meters.
The mound was available from NW to SE, with an approximate length of 24 m, close to the slope of the right bank Zaza in its floodplain.
The tooling set it up-to-moment the carved stone industry, stone industry by volume, shell industry and diet. Industry
carved stone
preliminary tests allow us to infer the presence of an industry largely of flakes with a small percentage of parts microlithic dimensions, where they can find notched flakes, retouched flakes reverse dorsal retouch flakes, drills and scrapers. Among the tools were found subdiscoidales nuclei with denticulate retouch, retouching binoculars with rugged, simple sharpeners, drill-core and attachment pin or hafting. On the other hand, the study fractures sliced \u200b\u200btools allowed to know-in a limited sample of 18 pieces, the existence of tinkering with the bills in 10 of them, what might indicate the intention of its production in order to create a new tool or use This leading edge with a utilitarian purpose.
Industry stone used
Within the set of the stone by volume, this group is the more significant finding represented by hard rock hammers, hammers, grinders and crushers of shapes and variable sizes.
Industry polished stone carved into volumes
Is represented by a small group of evidence, including lytic areas are highlighted, a bell-shaped pestle artifact and an artifact of limestone, similar to the axes precaribes. Industry
shell
This industry is poorly represented, denoting the existence of chisels, picks and tips shell. Diet
Integrated Juti remains mainly of different species of turtles (jicoteas), poultry, fish, crustaceans (crabs) and mollusks.
Preliminary considerations Despite the altered field, motivated by human activities (agricultural work), explorations and field work as well as the results of the analysis of the collected material allows to infer that the archaeological site of La Redonda I corresponds to the characteristics shown Mesolithic settlements established communities Mediterranean media, it seems, relegated the development and use of shell artifacts, less likely to keep the new conditions.
Photo .- bell pestle, pico
hand and lytic areas collected.
Another aspect of great interest is the possibility of contacts established groups developed (Neolithic). Assertion that it is possible by the presence of tools Wastewalker artifact obtained by the technique of stone carving and polishing postrior, as confirmed by the masher bell and other artifacts related to the construction process of these tools, for example: quartz trimmers. This aspect and the fact of collecting, in situ, cut glass tools, a phenomenon also observed in the site Ladies I-could indicate the possibility of a trade late in the enclave under study.
Further field work in the field and more research will enable trousseau corroborate the points made and further deepen the knowledge of this group of people who eventually settled in La Redonda I.
ing. Orlando Alvarez de la Paz
amateur archaeologist
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