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I WORKSHOP AND COLONIAL INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY: MUSEUM OF FOUNDATION SETTLEMENT SITE OF THE TOWN OF



just received a report that has been sent by our colleague and dear Orlando Alvarez friend of Peace Archaeology Specialist Provincial Center of Cultural Heritage of Sancti Spiritus. This news has to do with the I Archaeology Workshop Indian and Colonial , held in the city of Sancti Spiritus between 16 and 23 February this year. For the importance of content we wanted to transcribe verbatim:

Evaluation of the event: "I Workshop Aboriginal and Colonial Archaeology: Site Museum Foundation Settlement the Villa Samcti of Spiritus. "-

Scope : Provincial

Periodicity: Annual

Date: 16 al 23 February 2009

Headquarters : Provincial Center of Cultural Heritage of Sancti Spiritus

Organizing Committee:
-President: Anait Gómez Hernández

Vice President : Emigdio Alvarez Cañizares

-P romoting : Digna R. Valdés

-Computer : Tina Marante Yoisbel

- Historian: Marie Antoinette Margolles

-Specialist Archaeology: Orlando Alvarez de la Paz

Members:

-Yanelkis Morgado Jiménez

-Oneida

Delgado López-Oneida

Delgado López-Yaney

Queen Rameun

Number of participants:

Cuban Delegates: 30

Guests: 5

Total: 35

Development activities:

activities commenced prior to the workshop, when
responsible

promotion convened a press conference where he issued the call, objectives, agenda, among other information (Annex 1).

On Monday 16 February, at night, the first event was held at the Museum of Colonial Art in Sancti Spiritus. At the same Anait Gómez Hernández, Director of Provincial Cultural Heritage, welcomed participants to the workshop. Below. City Historian, Mary A. Margolles, outlined briefly, the most important events of the city since its founding in 1514.

Subsequently, Orlando Alvarez de la Paz, Specialist in Archaeology for such a center, provided information usually related to the research project archaeological excavation at Pueblo Viejo, probable settlement of the foundation of the town. Also speaking, Luis Olmos Jas, Co-Director of the Project and responsible for the archaeological, who addressed the history linked to the efforts of many researchers and historians Spiritus to locate the place of settlement of the town. Also used a word, Alejandro Romero Emperador, Chairman of the Foundation "Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Nature and Man", who expressed the readiness to provide all the assistance that is needed for the successful completion of the workshop and the archaeological collections recovered by the foundation and the group "Sama" Speleological Society of Cuba in the area for study.

Alfredo Santander Rankin, MA in Archaeology and Project Co-director and head of the excavation, called attention to the importance of the project and the fact it together archaeologists from different generations and the possibility of applying new methods in the excavations to Cuba. In his opinion, the workshop would be a first approach of the founding of the town of Sancti Spiritus, which demonstrate the veracity of the criteria exposed by historians, who give Pueblo Viejo and ridge of the Church as the founding chair of the town. Pointing out the need and importance of this type of workshop for the development of regional archeology and the study and conservation of local heritage.

As part of the evening, Marta Cuellar, Director of the Museo de Arte Colonial, provided extensive information about the archaeological work carried out in the toilet of the house site for the museum, words with which he opened an exhibition related to the materials recovered.

There, specialists able to appreciate the richness and variety of the body of evidence on display. It fostered a fruitful exchange between the present and enrich the knowledge we had at that time about the origin and dating of the sample, and the commitment of the study of such materials.

from Tuesday through Saturday 17 and 21, were carried out prospecting and excavation on the foothills of the Church and Thomas Knoll.

On Thursday night, Alejandro Romero Emperor President of the Foundation "Antonio Núñez Jiménez de la Nature and Man", invited participants to his headquarters, where archaeological materials were collected at the site Yayabo and the river mouths and Tuinucú Yayabo in the river Zaza. The visit provided a more general form of the archaeological region under study.

Sunday 22 February, within hours of the morning, made the Round Table, which released the results of the workshop and projections of future work.

Overall rating:

The "First Workshop Archaeology Indian and Colonial Settlement Foundation the Villa of Sancti Spítitus , helped to strengthen unity among all people dedicated to archeology in our province, to exchange experiences and knowledge with renowned specialists provinces Havana, Cienfuegos and Holguin. A novel aspect was the sharing of bibliographic materials related to archeology. The workshop set new guidelines for future exploration and excavation in the province and Cuba, as well as the necessary arrangements for the creation of provincial archeology group and the central region of Cuba.

social impact and repercussions of the event:

archaeological surveys and excavations at Pueblo Viejo raised the attention of the public to study addressed the founding site of the town of Sancti Spiritus in the place cited by historians, known as the ridge of the Church. His results changed the idea came about that place is proposing, planning efforts in other directions

more likely archaeological . The study defines the characteristics of the archaeological site reported by Sanso et al, 1991, Thomas Knoll. The results provide in-depth workshop knowledge of our local history.

Strengths:

As the first historian Spiritus Tadeo Martínez Moles in the late eighteenth century could see the remains of buildings built around the ruins of the church.
This statement makes us doubt his veracity, excuse the historian, as if Sancti Spiritus was founded in the early sixteenth century and taking into account the precarious of buildings at the time: wood and straw houses ; believe that it is very difficult , that after more than 200 years of being exposed to a Interpera end, these buildings withstand the climate extremes and other measures. Perhaps this statement was repeated over time by historians before him, without checking archaeological necessary in these cases, creating the hill Church and Thomas Knoll as site founding of the then town of Sancti Spiritus.

Several investigations were conducted in Pueblo Old with the course of the years: Sama group collected at the mouth of rivers Tuinucú Yayabo and archaeological evidence consisting of carved stone, by volume, ceramics and pottery of the nineteenth century. Sanso et al (1991) explored the place to find evidence of Indo-Hispanic contact in the place known as Thomas Knoll. have no doubt that this town was founded in Pueblo Viejo, which could not be confirmed is that out in these specific sites, ie, in these two elevations, who gave very poor material evidence, such as majolica, fittings and utensils or tools other than the time and culture. Objectives of this workshop were fulfilled to the extent possible the "fertility" of surveys conducted on both elevations. In the first, the ridge of the Church multiple searches were conducted with no positive test. The hill
Thomas repeated the multiple surveys, up to the prospect of 4x4 m. long and about 20 cm. depth, where only a few fragments were collected, very small-ceramic, apparently Aboriginal and tiny fragments of sixteenth-century majolica, which features belong to what is known as "Columbia Plain", confirm this yet postrior of labor- gabinete.omando these results as a premise, we estimate that the ridge of the Church there was any settlement, since there is no trace of any room, no evidence whatsoever that might say this about último.En Thomas Knoll, one can only say that aboriginal and English contacted at some point, for a period not very long, but no real evidence of settlement. Analyzing
achievements with these surveys, we decided to perform a scan to the southeast (SE), following the west bank of the river Tuinucú, exploring the surface this area and bringing us closer to a major water source, since the location of Thomas Knoll elevations and ridge of the Church are a bit distant from this waterway exploration was successful in collecting on the surface to an excellent sample of lithic evidence, consisting of silica material, which could be seen cores, flakes, sheets of excellent workmanship and with signs of having worked hard and of course: Aboriginal bill.

not to deny, at any time that the original settlement of the city of Sancti Spiritus was around Pueblo Viejo, somewhere in this first approach could not be located. We continue to investigate, to explore possible sites settle the primitive inhabitants of this city.
The task must be carried out mainly by the Provincial Heritage of Sancti Spiritus in collaboration with relevant government agencies and specialists of Archeology of the Office of the Historian of Havana, the Office of Conservative Trinidad, the provincial Department of Archaeological and Paleontological CITMA Foundation "Antonio Núñez Jiménez de la Nature and Man", the "Sama" Speleological Society of Cuba and the specialists of the Trinidad Museum of Archaeology General museums and La Sierpe, Jatibonico, Taguasco, Yaguajay Cabaiguán, Development and Sancti Spiritus, which actively participated in this campaign.
Future "workshops" and systematic exploration in the area will lead to the clarification of this and other uncertainties, which contains our earliest history and the men who built it.


Negatives

The workshop is the first of its kind to be convened by the Provincial Center of Cultural Heritage of Sancti Spiritus, has its roots in the 13 workshops run by the Office of Archaeology the Curator of the City of Trinidad, by level of complexity and for reasons beyond the control of the Organizing Committee could not guarantee the proper completion of the necessary equipment for field work. The Organizing Committee recommends working in this direction in order to ensure the completion of the second workshop in 2010 in field conditions, which will help the necessary saving resources and reducing costs.

"We thank our colleague Orlando Alvarez de la Paz, Specialist in Archaeological Heritage of the Provincial Center of Sancti Spiritus, shipping of this interesting information related to the "I Shop Indian and Colonial Arequeología" for this section Tonnage-News.


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