The Iberian-Guanche rock inscriptions at La Palma Is.: all seven Canary Islands (Spain) harbour these scripts

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Lineal Megalithic/Paleolithic Lineal signs/lines may have a variety of purposes or representations. Some authors have proposed they represent sky, planets and stars and their movements, space/time representations or others, including letters/syllables or symbols/events. Some are painted, other incised; the latter are relatively more common in Megalithic scripts. Man is “writing” or creating handmade figures on stones /rocks and other supports, which sometimes have intentionally been polished since Paleolithic times: at least 70,000 years BP (Blombos Cave, South Africa). Megalithic script is named because it is associated to megalithic structures, although not exclusively. Von Petzinger 40,000 years old “symbols” and/or writing are extended worldwide in Paleolithic caves and other rocks. Man connection was worldwide in Paleolithic times. Canary Islands incise or picketed lineal writing exists with a transcribed and translated meaning collection of signs (Ibero-Guanche or Latin inscriptions and Lybic ones). Also, other African/European/Mediterranean lineal scripts there exist and examples are given in the present paper. Fuerteventura Island contains in addition many small or bigger stones and rocks with these Paleolithic/Megalithic incised lines all over its territory. About timing in which these stones that were incised by man, we are only referring to a kind of stone crafting. However, we do not discard that they were made by man several thousand years BP. Some Paleolithic/Megalithic scripts are mixed with clear Iberian semi-syllabary signs in Fuerteventura and other Canary Islands. They may reflect the evolution of more ancient Megalithic scripts to lineal writings like those detailed in the present paper and others. Finally, writing concept should be redefined whenever more precise data and dating be available.

Section: Prehistoric Scripts and The Lineal Megalithic Rock Scriptssupporting

confidence: 86%

Lineal Megalithic Rock Scripts as precursors of Iberian and other lineal Mediterranean/Euro African ancient writings: the case of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain)

Arnaiz‐Villena¹,

Medina²,

Ruíz-del-Valle³

et al. 2021

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“…This is particularly evident with the many small Canarian fat "goddesses" statues and/or figurines which are similar to those found by Gimbutas (6,000 -3,000 years BC) and in Mediterranean Iberia: scholars name this influence on Canarian culture "The Gibraltar Strait Circle" that includes Mediterranean, Europe and Africa (González-Antón et al 2016). We also add a similarity with singular Malta Archipelago culture: "fat goddesses", extant cart-ruts in both Canarian and Malta Archipelagos 2019a;2020a;2020b;2020c;Medina and Arnaiz-Villena 2018a;2018b). Some Iberian scholars have not studied Canary Islands Ibero-Guanche scripts because of "lack of enough material" (Arnaiz-Villena, personal talk to scholars); however, Italian lineal languages (Fig.…”

Section: Ti-m Missaou/shelter Inscriptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Arnaiz-Villena & Alonso- García 2001;Arnaiz-Villena et al 2019b;2020a;2020b).…”

Section: Ti-m Missaou/shelter Inscriptionsunclassified

Iberian inscriptions in Sahara Desert rocks (Ti-m Missaou, Ahaggar Mts. area, Algeria): first evidence of incise Iberian rock scripts in continental North Africa

Arnaiz-Villena¹,

Ruíz-del-Valle²,

López‐Nares³

et al. 2021

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In the present paper, we show Iberian or Iberian-Guanche scripts found in the Middle of Sahara Desert, Ti-m Missaou (Tim Missao, Tim Missaw), 270 km SouthWest of Tamanrasset on Ahaggar or Hoggar Mountains (Mts.) area (Algeria). More Iberian scripts may be earthed beneath Sahara Desert sands or have been neglected by observers. We also put forward that Iberian semi-syllabary may have its origin in the Neolithic Saharo-Canarian Circle, the same as other Mediterranean, Atlantic and European lineal scripts (apart from Berber/Tuareg) like Etruscan, Runes, Old Italian languages, Minoan Lineal A, Sitovo and Gradeshnitsa (Bulgaria) writings (6,000 yearsBC) and others. In fact, Strabo wrote that Iberians had written language before since 6,000 BC. On the other hand, Sahara Desert was green and populated since before 5,000 years BC and we had proposed that most of Mediterranean culture, languages and writing, had a Saharan origin. Ti-m Missaou Sahara Iberian inscriptions, together with our previous and others researches on Canary Islands, further support this proposal, i.e.: rock scripts, Gimbutas-like Paleolithic figurines and unusual artifacts, like a lunisolar Egyptian-like calendar (“Cheeseboard/Quesera” at Lanzarote) carved in a Megalithic stone, do no support that Phoenicians and Romans carried Canarian ancient Guanche culture. Finally, a continuous lineal writing systems developing seems to have occurred during Paleolithic and Neolithic Epochs, which also harbor the related incise Lineal Megalithic Scripts that could have given rise to Iberian development and other lineal African, European and Mediterranean lineal language scripts. Our present new data is interpreted in the context of the Sahara people migration which occurred when hyperarid conditions started establishing about 6,000 years BC. Keywords: Iberian, Iberian-Guanche, Scripts, Canary Islands, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Prehistory, Saharo-Canarian Circle, Genetics, Megaliths, Iberia, Sahara, Atlantic, Mediterranean, Lineal Scripts, Neolithic, Tamanrasset, Hoggar, Ahaggar, Usko-Mediterranean,Etruscan, Tuareg, Berber, Lineal A.

“…Part of Saharan climate displaced people are proposed to have reached Canary Islands where common rock Ibero-Guanche and older lineal scripts are found (Arnaiz-Villena et al 2019a;2020a;2020b) Volcanic rock environment had to be taken by people for any socio-cultural archaeologic manifestation. However, megalithic constructions (Zonzamas rock carved calendar and Cart-ruts in Lanzarote) are found.…”

Section: Canary Islandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, pyramids have been reported in all Islands. Thus, navigation among Islands existed (Arnaiz-Villena et al 2019a;2020a;2020b;Mederos-Martín & Escribano-Cobo 2005). Other rock calendars have been described in Canary Islands and multiple prehistoric artifacts have been found, like "fat" goddesses similar to those found by Gimbutas in Europe older than 3,500 years BC: at La Fortaleza (Gran Canaria), Tara (Telde, Gran Canaria) (Arco-Aguilar & Navarro-Mederos 1996;Arnaiz-Villena et al 2020a).The fact that ancient Canarians or Guanches have resisted Phoenician, Roman, Arab and other invasions led to French-Spanish conquerors to find some of this Guanche ancient art/folk manifestations without much alteration including rock paintings and rock scripts of both Iberian and Lybic characters and also more ancient Megalithic Lineal Scripts (Vazquez-Hoys 2008;Muñoz-Gambero 2019).…”

Section: Canary Islandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Saharo-Canarian Circle: The forgotten Prehistory of Euro African Atlantic façade and its lack of eastern demic diffusion evidences

Arnaiz‐Villena¹,

Medina²,

Ruíz-del-Valle³

et al. 2021

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Canarians, North Africans and Iberians show a close genetic relatedness. Greeks have a Sub-Saharan gene input according to HLA and other autosomic markers. Also, there is a genetic kinship between both Atlantic Euro Africans and North African/Arabic people. This is concordant with a drying humid Sahara Desert, which may have occurred about 6,000 years BC, and the subsequent northwards emigration of Saharan people may have also happened in Pharaonic times. This genetic input into Atlantic and Mediterranean Europe/Africa is also supported with Lineal Megalithic Scripts in Canary Islands (as well as in Iberia) together with simple Iberian semi-syllabary rock inscriptions both at Canary Islands and Ti-m Missaou (Algeria, Central southern Sahara). Lineal African/European scripts are found in certain languages scripts like Berber/Tuareg, Iberian, Runes, Etruscan, Bulgarian (Sitovo and Gradeshnitza, 6,000 years BP), Italian Old Scripts (Lepontic, Venetic, Raetic), Minoan Lineal A and Vinca scripts (Romania, Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, about 4,000 years BP). The possibility that Megalithic Lineal Scripts have given rise to these languages lineal writing is feasible because admixture of languages rock scripts and Megalithic Lineal Scripts have been found. Thus, resistance of Canarian aborigines (Guanches) to Carthage, Rome and Arabs left a bulk of Canarian-Saharan information which is used to study both Saharan and Canarian Prehistory, and also Atlantic and Mediterranean beginning of European and other civilizations: this preserved prehistoric inheritance may be named the “Saharo-Canarian Circle” of prehistoric knowledge. Also, linguistics-epigraphy, physical anthropology, archaeology, and domesticated cattle shows a close North Africa-Iberia Mesolithic/Neolithic relationship and demonstrates that the demic diffusion model does not exist in Iberia. Also, Tassili Sahara paintings of domesticated cattle appear 1,000 years before those agricultural practices started at Middle East. Finally, it is also inferred that circum-Mediterranean contacts during thousand years between ice and desert constructed Mediterranean cultures from Canary Islands to Ancient Great Persia and this is the origin of Classical Mediterranean cultures that was later exclusively attributed to Rome and Greece.