Neolithic

The most important part of the site is its magical-religious nature: the ball courts, petroglyphs, amulets and burials which provide information about their belief in an after-life. Earliest excavations date to 1914. Until now, 9 ball fields, 186 burials, and 3 ceremonial plazas were discovered. It possibly is the oldest astronomical observatory in the Antilles.

The ancient village is a reconstructed archaeological ensemble, an attempt to reconstruct the life of indigenous tribe. It was created in 1962 by Celia Sanchez Manduley, a woman heroine of the Cuban Revolution, to represent the life of the aboriginal community of the island as closely as possible. La Aldea Taína was built to promote Cuban cultural roots, showing recreations and live shows that recreate myths and legends native to the ancient inhabitants of this place. There’s also a restaurant.

The Wilderness Trust's project, Out of Eden, investigates the origins of farming and Neolithic culture in the UK through practical experimentation. This is in its early stages, carried out entirely with volunteer labour on a 50 acre site in mid-Wales.

Excavations have now been concentrated on the northern sector of the site, where the earliest settlement was established. The rest of the site has been designed as an open-air museum comprising of distinct units. Among them three traditional cruck-like buildings transported from the Istranca mountains have been designed with models to display the Neolithic way of life at Aşağı Pınar. Among other units experimental archaeological area, traditional crafts, training centre, natural environment of Neolithic Thrace and Time Tunnel, some of them have been finalised, other are under construction.