The most recent archaeological excavations carried out in the Havanan historical center threw remains of Busycon snails. "> The most recent archaeological excavations carried out in the Havanan historical center threw remains of Busycon snails. ">

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The most recent archaeological excavations carried out in the Havanan historical center threw remains of Busycon snails, natives to the south of Florida, which confirms the hypothesis that they were brought by the waves of migrations in the context of the XVIII century.

Specialists from the Cabinet of Archaeology of the Office of the Historian of the City are trying to discover who brought them and for what reason. The Busycon snail is not reported in the costs of Cuba.

The archaeological excavations in the Havana Historical Center keep revealing the life of the inhabitants of that part of the village from the XVI until the present time.

Currently the specialists from the Cabinet of Archaeology of the Office of the Historian of the City are excavating and processing materials extracted from the buildings located in the streets Tacón number eight and in Amargura 65.

Fragments of domestic china, glass, ceramic, diet remains, cattle bones, bird bones were found in Tacón number eight where they were also found quelonio pieces that reinforce the investigation of the capitular records that point out to the existence of a beach of turtles near the Castle of the Force or the Square of Saint Francis from Assisi.

These discoveries belonging to the XVII century are vital for the study of the transformations of the city of Havana.

In this study area there was also found something uncommon, an over position of structures, a well, a wall and then the wall of a latrine. This gives the certainty that several families lived with different distributions.

On occasions, because it was an archaeological interest in the places where a restoration will be carried out, the archaeology cabinet intervenes first to look for evidences of the history, as what they ate, how they dressed, or how they distributed the spaces inside the properties.
 
Everything that hurtles to how was the life of the human beings that inhabited the city.

Another archaeological site, the housing of the street Amargura number 65 is dug in a latrine, a place to where all the physiologic waste went, and all that was thrown away in a home.

It is necessary to point out that on occasions the Cabinet of Archaeology receives projects that are of interests of the architects and the archaeologists are the ones who investigate in reservoirs (that were stuffed) discoveries of a specific moment, or they look for original stairways, construction techniques to solve a restoration problem.

The study of all that has been found also includes, apart from the archaeologists with historians and specialist in painting mural.

By Ana Maura Carbo Duran

Source: Cubarte

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