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« Reply #45 on: January 28, 2009, 06:59:07 pm »







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In the process of mapping, Knight and his colleagues happened upon several thousand pottery and stone artifacts, including the small stone idols.

"They took exotic, fine-grain metamorphic rocks and gradually reduced them into forms that look very crude, but you can tell that the intended product was an [idol]," said Knight, whose work is funded in part by the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.)

"We know now that the society had an elite class and that the crude idols were meant for the elite," he said, adding that the idols were human-shaped figures representing gods and were likely worn on necklaces.

The origins of the unusual stone are unknown, but it was probably imported, Knight said.

Columbus's voyage landed him in northeastern Cuba, where researchers say he would have encountered Arawakan Indians.

While Knight said there is no evidence that Columbus visited El Chorro de Maita, the researcher is certain that the settlement was occupied by Arawakans, who were organized by chiefdoms.

They were an agriculturist people, reliant on root crops instead of corn, but there is a lack of specific information about names of tribes and their specific locations, according to Knight.

To complement the findings at El Chorro, researchers are using historical documents—including handwritten materials made by Spanish colonizers of Cuba.

The documents are written in a barely recognizable form of Spanish that today few people understand, Knight said. But they are rich in information, he adds.

One 16th-century document, for example, offers a detailed inventory of an early Spanish colonizer's possessions.

John Worth, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of West Florida, is analyzing the documents, which are housed in Spain.

"I'm trying to sort through the details of how this all took place," Worth said. "The sources are excellent with respect to the broad generalities of what happened during the 1500s and 1600s and later, but they are generally not specific enough to be able to zero in on the Chorro site in particular."
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