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discovered a site in pre-Columbian The French Guyana

It 'was announced a few days on the website of' INRAP , l 'Institut National des Recherches Arqueologiques Preventives , the discovery of a pre-Columbian lived along the coast of French Guyana , South America. It has in fact identified INRAP years remains attributable to pre-Columbian Amerindian populations that have lived between thirteenth and sixteenth century . The finding was expected: since 1988 In fact, archaeologists have found in another important pre-Columbian site. You are so normal succession of archaeological investigations "light" the last of which, in 2009, paved the way for an archaeological dig.

the coast of French Guyana is a succession of sandy hills, several km long, indicate the shift of the coastline over time. The coastal environment was rather marshy, so the pre-Columbian people first and also favor this colonial heights to establish their settlements. The newly discovered site of Sainte-Agathe is situated directly on one of these hills.

objective of the excavation was to identify areas of activity of the inhabited space, but that goal was reached only in part, because of recent works in the area by mechanical means which have partly affected the stratification: the archaeological structures are very poorly preserved. Understandable only traces are left by those concentrations of ceramic material, scattered across the top of the hill. Just based on the spatial distribution, the archaeologists hope, you can deduct the business segments by analyzing the findings.

The first radiometric dating made would seem to indicate recent occupation of the site altogether, the beginning of the fourteenth century of our era until the eighteenth century. These dates, together with the data provided by the ceramics, are in agreement with other dates for other sites in the region.

The discovery of this site, and the rest of the archaeological excavations in the future, will allow a better understanding of the dynamics of the population of the coast of Cayenne in French pre-Columbian era, where we still have little knowledge.

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