{"id":167688,"date":"2021-11-04T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=167688"},"modified":"2021-11-04T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:31:35","slug":"committee-to-the-rescue-of-pomier-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/04\/committee-to-the-rescue-of-pomier-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee to the rescue of Pomier Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"740\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pictographs-at-Pomier-Cave.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pictographs-at-Pomier-Cave.png 740w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pictographs-at-Pomier-Cave-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Good news for the Cuevas del Pomier, the cave system located in San Cristobal that features one of the most extensive collections of pre-Hispanic art. President Luis Abinader has named a technical-scientific committee to direct research work that will support the recognition of the Anthropological Reserve Cuevas de Borb\u00f3n or del Pomier as the prehistoric capital of the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Decree 705-21, President Abinader names the ministers of Environment, Tourism and Culture to the committee. The committee will assess the fauna and flora that the aborigines used as food, and the extinct species whose remains have been found in the caves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decree establishes that the reserve has petroglyphs and pictographs that should be valued, in addition to the investigation of the connection of these with other Mesoamerican cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of the committee also include Phil Lehman, from the DRSS Foundation (Dominican Republic Speleological Society); Manuel Garc\u00eda Ar\u00e9valo, from the Garc\u00eda Ar\u00e9valo Foundation; Clenis Tavarez Mar\u00eda, anthropologist from the Museo del Hombre Dominicano; and Juan Almonte, paleontologist from the Museo de Historia Natural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Borb\u00f3n or Pomier Caves, located in the Borb\u00f3n section of San Crist\u00f3bal province, have more than 6,000 prehistoric paintings and approximately 500 cave engravings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government understands that in addition to their tourist potential, the Cuevas de Borb\u00f3n or del Pomier Anthropological Reserve constitute an archeological and anthropological heritage, which is why it is of great interest for the study of the Amerindian groups that inhabited the Caribbean islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/decretos\/705-21\">Presidency \u2013 Decree 705-21 <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2021\/11\/03\/695307\/abinader-designa-comision-para-convertir-cuevas-del-pomier-en-la-capital-prehistorica-del-pais\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 November 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for the Cuevas del Pomier, the cave system located in San Cristobal that features one of the most extensive collections of pre-Hispanic art. President Luis Abinader has named a technical-scientific committee to direct research work that will support the recognition of the Anthropological Reserve Cuevas de Borb\u00f3n or del Pomier as the prehistoric &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/04\/committee-to-the-rescue-of-pomier-caves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167709,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167688\/revisions\/167709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}