Dominican cave specialist, Domingo Abreu Collado presented evidence that the Taino indians who inhabited the island when Christopher Columbus arrived, shared identity with Maya and Inca indians of South America. Abreu presented the evidence during the 17th Scientific Research Day held at the UASD. His presentation was on “Maya Connections to Taino Cave Art in the Dominican Republic.”
“After an individual analysis of thousands of figures and forms in the pictographic and petroglyphic evidences, located in Dominican caves, together with the verification of cave art in caves in Central America, and the search in the texts of the chroniclers who made contact with Maya, Inca and Nahua cultures in that region, has led us to the Mayan identity traces in our own rock art collections,” said Abréu Collado.
He called for revisiting archaeological and anthropological studies with new perspectives and investigative practices to further confirm the linkages between the Taino and South American and Central American indian cultures.
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Diario Libre
18 December 2018
