Propuesta para la clasificación de los materiales cerámicos de tradición aborigen de la isla de Gran Canaria (Islas Canarias)

Curbelo, Miguel del Pino; Rodríguez, Amelia Rodríguez

doi:10.14198/lvcentvm2017.36.01

Cited by 6 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 3 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Ceramics on Gran Canaria (e.g., at the site of La Cerera) also became more standardized over time, including the manufacture of elaborately decorated vessels that may have been primarily used in serving/eating food (at feasts?) rather than in preparing it and that perhaps denoted the identities of the groups involved (del Pino Curbelo et al 2016;del Pino Curbelo and Rodríguez Rodríguez 2017). In sum, multiple signals suggest that during the last few centuries before Castile's 15th century conquest of the island the production and distribution of food and artifacts on Gran Canaria were becoming more centrally controlled (Morales et al 2014a).…”

Section: Diversity: Variation In Island Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast

Mitchell

2023

J Archaeol Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Island archaeology is a well-established field within the wider discipline, but African contributions to it remain scarce. The Canary Islands are unusual in the broader African context for their relatively long history of occupation (~2000 years) and the intensity with which archaeological research has been, and is, undertaken there. Much of that research, however, has focused on specifically Canarian issues, including efforts to demonstrate connections between the islands’ initial settlement and the Classical Mediterranean world. Relatively little of it has been conducted within the broader comparative framework that an island archaeology perspective provides. Additionally, much of the Canarian literature is not directly accessible to non-Hispanophones. In response, I synthesize what is currently known about the archaeology of the Canary Islands, focusing on determining when, how, and by whom they were first settled; the impacts of human settlement on their environments; inter-island variability in precolonial subsistence, social, and political trajectories; and the record left by European contact and subsequent colonization, which began in the 14th century AD. As well as pointing to further opportunities for research within the archipelago, I simultaneously map out several areas where archaeological work there could contribute to wider debates in island archaeology as a whole.

show abstract

Section: Diversity: Variation In Island Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast

Mitchell

2023

J Archaeol Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Building E−7.1 is interpreted as a storage room based on the numerous ceramic containers found there in situ (at least 12 containers typologically interpreted as food containers) 41 ( Figure S2 D). This building is not directly connected with the exterior.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fecal biomarkers and micromorphological indicators of sheep penning and flooring at La Fortaleza pre-Hispanic site (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands)

Herrera-Herrera,

Padrón-Herrera,

Iriarte

et al. 2024

iScience

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World: the Amazigh/Berber settling of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries ce)

Morales,

Speciale,

Rodríguez-Rodríguez

et al. 2023

Veget Hist Archaeobot

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Canary Islands were settled ca. 1,800 years ago by Amazigh/Berber farming populations originating in North Africa. This historical event represents the last and westernmost expansion of the Mediterranean farming package in Antiquity, and investigating it yields information about crop dispersal along the periphery of the Mediterranean world around the turn of the first millennium ce. The current study focuses on archaeobotanical evidence recorded in a series of pre-Hispanic/Amazigh sites of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries ce). It offers new, unpublished archaeobotanical findings and direct radiocarbon datings of plant remains from the different islands. The general goal is to gain a better grasp of how the first settlers of the Canary Islands adapted their farming activities to the different natural conditions of each island. The results suggest a shared crop ‘package’ throughout the islands since at least the 3rd–5th centuries ce. This set of plants was likely introduced from north-western Africa and consists of Hordeum vulgare (hulled barley), Triticum durum (durum wheat), Lens culinaris (lentil), Vicia faba (broad bean), Pisum sativum (pea), and Ficus carica (fig). The crop ‘package’ probably arrived in a single episode during the initial colonisation and was not followed by any other plants. Subsequent to the initial settling and until the arrival of the European seafarers, the islands remained isolated from each other and from the outside world, a condition that over time led to a decline in crop diversity in all of the islands except Gran Canaria.

show abstract

Propuesta para la clasificación de los materiales cerámicos de tradición aborigen de la isla de Gran Canaria (Islas Canarias)

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast

Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast

Fecal biomarkers and micromorphological indicators of sheep penning and flooring at La Fortaleza pre-Hispanic site (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands)

Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World: the Amazigh/Berber settling of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries ce)

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About