2008
DOI: 10.3989/tp.2008.08009
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Geochemical study of two obsidian production centers in the Prehistory of Tenerife: El Tabonal de los Guanches (Icod de los Vinos) and el Tabonal Negro (Las Cañadas)

Abstract: RESUMENLa producción obsidiánica es uno de los procesos de trabajo que mejor permite la caracterización social de los guanches, primeros habitantes de Tenerife (Canarias). En esta ocasión se aborda el estudio geoquímico de las coladas en las que se ubican sus principales fuentes de aprovisionamiento de obsidiana: El Tabonal de Los Guanches (Icod de los Vinos) y El Tabonal Negro en Mña. Blanca (Las Cañadas del Teide), consideradas desde el punto de vista arqueológico como Centros de Producción. El objetivo es e… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1

Citation Types

0
3
0

Year Published

2022
2022
2023
2023

Publication Types

Select...
3

Relationship

0
3

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 3 publications
(3 citation statements)
references
References 5 publications
0
3
0
Order By: Relevance
“…In the absence of metal ores or flint anywhere in the archipelago, rocks of volcanic origin were central to the technologies used in agriculture, fishing, and herding, as well as to many other tasks. Basalt, phonolite, and trachyte were the most common materials employed for making knapped tools, along with obsidian, the use of which was particularly intensive on Tenerife (Hernández Gómez and Galván Santos 2008). Use-wear studies from across the archipelago document their collective employment in animal butchery and in working soft vegetable fibers, hide, bone, and wood.…”
Section: Altering: Subsistence and Transformationmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…In the absence of metal ores or flint anywhere in the archipelago, rocks of volcanic origin were central to the technologies used in agriculture, fishing, and herding, as well as to many other tasks. Basalt, phonolite, and trachyte were the most common materials employed for making knapped tools, along with obsidian, the use of which was particularly intensive on Tenerife (Hernández Gómez and Galván Santos 2008). Use-wear studies from across the archipelago document their collective employment in animal butchery and in working soft vegetable fibers, hide, bone, and wood.…”
Section: Altering: Subsistence and Transformationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All the islands were nevertheless divided into multiple chiefdoms with variable degrees of internal cohesion (Adhikari 2017). Known as menceyatos on Tenerife, buffer zones between them were used for transhumant pastoralism or the extraction of other resources, such as obsidian (Hernández Gómez and Galván Santos 2008). Archaeological surveys have sought to identify the territorial limits implied by documentary sources, some of them marked by concentrations of burials in caves that may have asserted and legitimized claims to land ownership (Jiménez Escribano Cobo 2008, 2017).…”
Section: Diversity: Variation In Island Trajectoriesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this scenario, Las Cañadas del Teide has been proposed as a seasonal, summer (May to September) habitat of shepherds and their goats (Arnay de la Rosa et al 2017Rosa et al , 2011; Arnay de la Rosa and González Reimers 2006;Diego Cuscoy 2008;Vidal-Matutano et al 2019). The exploitation of lithic resources from the area (mainly basalt and obsidian) has been previously documented (Arnay de la Rosa et al 2017Hernández Gómez and Galván Santos 2008). Las Cañadas highlands might also have represented a refugium for Guanche communities after the arrival of the Castillians between the 13th and the 15th Centuries (Arnay de la Rosa et al 2011;Espinosa 1980;Aznar Vallejo 1988).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 95%