DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The pre-Hispanic culture on the island of Hispaniola is featured at the exhibits now shown at the Casa del Cordon, a very well-preserved house of the earliest Spanish settlement of Santo Domingo.

The exhibit features some 350 pieces of Taino artifacts that are on-loan to the Taino House Cultural Center at the Casa del Cordon.

The exhibits were prepared by archeologist Carlos Leon, and features items that represent a “pre-Hispanic civilization that populated a good proportion of the Antilles until the 16th Century.

The new exhibition is sponsored by the Banco Popular and offers visitors insights into life on this island 600 years ago.

Alongside the Taino exhibits are samples of the pre-Taino inhabitants, which recent studies carried out by the University of Harvard and the University of Winnipeg have shown were people who originated in...