New discoveries by El Corazon del Caribe Research Project

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Channel: The British Museum · 2016 · Education

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The British Museum’s Dr Jago Cooper shot this video to highlight exciting discoveries that show new evidence in the Caribbean of an early religious dialogue between Europeans and Native Americans. 

It was made with co-director  Dr Alice Samson during recent fieldwork by the Anglo-Puerto Rican research team, led by the British Museum, University of Leicester, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales and Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 

For full details of the research  please see this recently published open access article: 
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10412153&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0003598X16001034

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