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<< Text Pages >> Blanchisseuse - Ancient Village or Settlement in Caribbean Islands

Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 12 April 2007  Page Views: 9366

Multi-periodSite Name: Blanchisseuse
Country: Caribbean Islands
NOTE: This site is 315.416 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Blanchisseuse
Latitude: 10.794970N  Longitude: 61.3021W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Ancient Settlement in Trinidad.
Largest Pre-Columbian site in north Trinidad. Inhabited 200 - 600 AD. Researchers are particularly interested in this site for its clues to the peopling of the islands from the Americas mainland.

Location is only aproximate.

Note: See comment on finds of recent dig, including "vomit spatula" and other household items.
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Blanchisseuse dig reveals Amerindian pottery by Anonymous on Thursday, 12 April 2007
Submitted by coldrum ---

On March 7, Reid and his team conducted archaeological excavations at Marianne Estate in Blanchisseuse.

“Pottery found at the site is characterised by white-on-red, red and black painting, which are the signature pottery decorations of the Saladoid people. The Saladoids, the first pottery-making Amerindians to arrive in Trinidad and Tobago, settled the twin island republic from 250 BC to AD 600,” Reid said the Saladoids migrated from the Orinoco region of Venezuela, as farmers, potters and villagers.

“A Saladoid village usually had a central plaza, which was the scene of meetings and ritual activities, including cohaba rituals. Saladoid men would inhale hallucinogens as part of their ritual displays,” he said.
Previous archaeological surveys conducted in Blanchisseuse during the late 1990s suggest the areas where sparse quantities of pottery were found might have been the site of a central plaza, while areas with the heavier quantities of pottery might have been the residential areas of Blanchisseuse.

This year’s excavation yielded an assortment of pottery, griddles and stone artefacts. The Saladoid pots were used for a variety of functions such as cooking, food storage and ceremonial feasting.
The griddles tend to be thicker and poorly fired and were used for baking cassava bread, a staple of the Amerindians in north-east South America and the Caribbean. An interesting find this year is a stone artefact that seems to have been a vomit spatula.

Reid consulted Dr Brent Wilson, a lecturer in Geoscience in UWI’s Department of Chemical Engineering to identify the geological make-up of the stone. Wilson described the object as made of fine-grained, acid, extrusive igneous rock from a volcano. He also said there is no such rock found in Trinidad and the stone was probably imported from the Lesser Antilles. As a result, Reid believes the stone may be a vomit spatula, imported by the Saladoid inhabitants of Blanchisseuse and used in their cohaba rituals in the central plaza.

For more, see Newsday.
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