Notas históricas sobre la Arqueología en las Antillas.

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Conocer a Pepe Alcina

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Los trígonolítos antillanos: Aportes para un intento de reclaslficaclón e interpretación.

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El más reciente precerámico dominicano y su relación con el área antillana.

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A genetic history of the pre-contact Caribbean

Humans settled the Caribbean about 6,000 years ago, and ceramic use and intensified agriculture mark a shift from the Archaic to the Ceramic Age at around 2,500 years ago1,2,3. Here we report genome-wide data from 174 ancient individuals from The Bahamas, Haiti and the Dominican Republic (collectively, Hispaniola), Puerto Rico, Curaçao and Venezuela, which we co-analysed with 89 previously published ancient individuals. Stone-tool-using Caribbean people, who first entered the Caribbean during the Archaic Age, derive from a deeply divergent population that is closest to Central and northern South American individuals; contrary to previous work4, we find no support for ancestry contributed by a population related to North American individuals. Archaic-related lineages were >98% replaced by a genetically homogeneous ceramic-using population related to speakers of languages in the Arawak family from northeast South America; these people moved through the Lesser Antilles and into the Greater Antilles at least 1,700 years ago, introducing ancestry that is still present. Ancient Caribbean people avoided close kin unions despite limited mate pools that reflect small effective population sizes, which we estimate to be a minimum of 500–1,500 and a maximum of 1,530–8,150 individuals on the combined islands of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola in the dozens of generations before the individuals who we analysed lived. Census sizes are unlikely to be more than tenfold larger than effective population sizes, so previous pan-Caribbean estimates of hundreds of thousands of people are too large5,6. Confirming a small and interconnected Ceramic Age population7, we detect 19 pairs of cross-island cousins, close relatives buried around 75 km apart in Hispaniola and low genetic differentiation across islands. Genetic continuity across transitions in pottery styles reveals that cultural changes during the Ceramic Age were not driven by migration of genetically differentiated groups from the mainland, but instead reflected interactions within an interconnected Caribbean world1,8.This work was supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society to M. Pateman to facilitate analysis of skeletal material from The Bahamas and by a grant from the Italian ‘Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation’ (Italian archaeological, anthropological and ethnological missions abroad, DGPSP Ufficio VI). D.R. was funded by NSF HOMINID grant BCS-1032255, NIH (NIGMS) grant GM100233, the Paul Allen Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation grant 61220 and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.Peer reviewe

Voces dominicanas en UNAPEC. Cinco premios nacionales de literatura (Vol. 1): Marcio Veloz Maggiolo

"Voces Dominicanas en UNAPEC" es una colección de testimonios de personalidades dominicanas, intelectuales, artísticas, empresariales, magisteriales o de cualquier otra índole, que hayan contribuido a afianzar los valores sobre los que se empina la historia de esta nación. Su intención es perpetuar, en la propia voz de sus protagonistas, un trozo de la historia individual que haya trascendido a la colectividad. Los volúmenes primero y segundo de esta colección se han dedicado a prominentes autores dominicanos que han sido galardonados con el Premio Nacional de Literatura, un reconocimiento a la labor literaria conjunta de un autor que en la República Dominicana se otorga cada año desde 1990. De Marcio Veloz Maggiolo: 1. Historia; 2. Biografía difusa; 3. El hombre del acordeón; 4. La fértil agonía del amor; 5. La mosca soldado