Continued ... (6 ª part) Archaeological
Tres Palmas I
The site is located at 1.3 km from the town of Tres Palmas, 7.5 km from the town of Guayos and 5 m on the left bank of the creek Zambumbia, which empties into the river Zaza 1.5 km from the place of study.
Evidence surface displayed in an area of \u200b\u200b4800 square meters, where the cultivation of the soil has led largely outcrop of them.
The collected material was grouped into: lithic, ceramic, shell and food debris .
The furniture of carved stone described in the study in Prehispanic regalia. The
majadores hammers and coming from the reservoir can be considered medium to small size and consist of natural stones used without prior preparation. Traces of these instruments work appear quite sizeable, mainly along its entire perimeter in the case of disk-shaped and the ends to the ovoid. For its part, the one show majadores work surface. As for the
Dyer material were collected two types of materials consisting of minerals: hematite and piroluxita . The first is an iron oxide, which provides a red dye and the second is a manganese oxide black color.
Using hematite as dyeing material is clearly proven in almost every municipality Cabaiguán sites, but the use of manganese oxides has not been tested in any of the sites discovered in the country. However, the rocks collected in Tres Palmas I show some signs of friction on their surfaces, as well as hematite, where plans have been formed completely smooth and polished, showing how to obtain the dye.
The only manganese mine closer to the site is located in Sierra de Cubitas, province of Camagüey. This material does not outcrop at the surface, but appears in deposits as such (Cosme, personal communication). For these reasons, it is possible to infer that copies of piroluxitas were imported or brought in by these natives to their arrival and may, therefore, an indication of place of origin.
The ceramic appears highly fragmented and eroded, as well as the number of fragments is high.
The temper is relatively thick and formed by micro quantities.
excenta, ceramics decorations, just get a piece of edge of vessel with a semicircular incision at the top.
The shape of the vessels should be generally globular. The thickness of the walls varies between 4 mm and 9 mm, the predominance of 7 mm thick. The
shell material is abundant, only collected a fragment of mantle Strombus costatus used as a hammer, as well as several fragments belonging to other tools that by their conservation status can not be identified. Blow
food .- These are elements jutías bone gender Capromys and Geocapromys, turtles of the genus Pseudemys, and vertebrae of fish and land snails of the genus Zachrysia. Mounds are not observed.
The evidence collected on this site presuppose the existence of an economy based mainly on hunting, fishing and gathering, in addition to the possible domestication of certain plants. Copyright
: Santiago F.
Orlando Silva Álvarez García de la Paz
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