Between 6 500 10 000 years ago human groups arrived in Cuba bearers of a culture that was called protoarcaico or Paleoindian . Among the first studies with this culture are those by Dr. Antonio Núñez Jiménez in the mid-40's, when first reported in the Levisa River basins and Mayan (Seboruco site), Holguín, a carved stone industry, in which stands-above all-the presence of large sheets typological dimensions and other characteristics that arguably differed from the rest of the groups that settled in our islands. agreed to call Seboruco culture. Several discoveries in South America and Cetroamérica and finding new locations in the U.S., which are reported not only pre-Clovis technologies, but also more primitive even show absolute dates which exceed 50 000 years BP.
reports, which have attracted the attention of the scientific world recently, is the findings of lithic industries, whose characteristics resemble to those groups Paleolithic stage, taking into account the technology used in the manufacture of stone artifacts and the presence of some examples of the types of these industries. These reports correspondence in eastern Cuba, to the Cave The Masanga in Gibara, Holguín province, where Milton Castellanos Nilecta Pino and discover the presence of remains of extinct fauna associated with early aboriginal groups. In the Central Region discoveries are located in the provinces of Villa Clara, in the municipalities of Sagua la Grande, and Corralillo Quemado de Guines, in addition to the province of Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos and Rhodes municipalities. These findings have
great importance and interest to understand how it is carried out on arrival, displacement, and further dispersion of these human groups in our archipelago and circum area in general. Studies have been ongoing for some time in the provinces of Villa Clara and Holguin through an international collaborative project in the province of Cienfuegos and are taking the first steps to starting this study.
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new hope concerning the progress and preliminary results of studies carried out on our most primitive settlement.
For more information:
http://www.cesam.villaclara.cu/documentos/ProyectoAlemanes.pdf
http://arqueologicas.tripod.com/bifaces.html
http://www.cubaarqueologica.org / html / blank / paleo.htm
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