Sobre las Fortunatae Insulae de Plinio el Viejo

Gaspar, Antonio Tejera

doi:10.25145/j.fortunat.2021.34.11

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“…North Africanists propose that the peopling of the Canary Islands was led by autochthonous Amazigh groups, the ancestors of pastoralist Berbers from present-day Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria (Navarro Mederos, 1997; Tejera Gaspar et al, 2006; Fregel et al, 2019). This approach encompasses various peopling models with differing timelines.…”

Section: Introduction: the Canaries And Aboriginal Originsmentioning

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“…This approach encompasses various peopling models with differing timelines. Some scholars attribute the relocation of unskilled seafaring Berber tribes to the Romans (Tejera Gaspar et al, 2006; Jiménez González, 2013). Others interpret rock art and linguistics as evidence of initial settlement around 500 bc , first by an ‘Archaic Amazigh’ group followed by a ‘Romanized Amazigh’ migration (Farrujia de la Rosa et al, 2009).…”

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Who, Why, When, and Where From? The Peopling of the Canary Islands and the Challenges of Archaeometry

Cuello del Pozo

2024

Eur. j. archaeol

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Archaeologists in the Canary Islands have gathered substantial quantitative data from radiocarbon measurements and aDNA analyses. While undeniably helpful and necessary for apprehending past human activity, their interpretation, based on theories underpinning models developed for island chains, has lagged, leaving a gap in our understanding of processes of occupation and social network systems. The decontextualized nature of the archaeological landscape of the Canaries and a lack of consensus about proper radiocarbon methodologies are some of the factors contributing to heated scholarly debate. Here, for the Canary Islands, the author reviews the current literature on aDNA and discusses settlement theories, the chronological evidence used for occupation models, and how such perspectives align with current thinking on island colonization.

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Section: Introduction: the Canaries And Aboriginal Originsmentioning

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Who, Why, When, and Where From? The Peopling of the Canary Islands and the Challenges of Archaeometry

Cuello del Pozo

2024

Eur. j. archaeol

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The chronology of the human colonization of the Canary Islands

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del Pino,

Morales

et al. 2024

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The human colonization of the Canary Islands represents the sole known expansion of Berber communities into the Atlantic Ocean and is an example of marine dispersal carried out by an African population. While this island colonization shows similarities to the populating of other islands across the world, several questions still need to be answered before this case can be included in wider debates regarding patterns of initial colonization and human settlement, human–environment interactions, and the emergence of island identities. Specifically, the chronology of the first human settlement of the Canary Islands remains disputed due to differing estimates of the timing of its first colonization. This absence of a consensus has resulted in divergent hypotheses regarding the motivations that led early settlers to migrate to the islands, e.g., ecological or demographic. Distinct motivations would imply differences in the strategies and dynamics of colonization; thus, identifying them is crucial to understanding how these populations developed in such environments. In response, the current study assembles a comprehensive dataset of the most reliable radiocarbon dates, which were used for building Bayesian models of colonization. The findings suggest that i) the Romans most likely discovered the islands around the 1st century BCE; ii) Berber groups from western North Africa first set foot on one of the islands closest to the African mainland sometime between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE; iii) Roman and Berber societies did not live simultaneously in the Canary Islands; and iv) the Berber people rapidly spread throughout the archipelago.

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Sobre las Fortunatae Insulae de Plinio el Viejo

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Who, Why, When, and Where From? The Peopling of the Canary Islands and the Challenges of Archaeometry

Who, Why, When, and Where From? The Peopling of the Canary Islands and the Challenges of Archaeometry

The chronology of the human colonization of the Canary Islands

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