Indigenous Canary Islands Women
Numerous arab traders visited the archipelago as time rolled on.
Indigenous canary islands women. The eight main islands are from largest to smallest in area tenerife fuerteventura gran canaria lanzarote la palma la gomera el hierro and la graciosa the archipelago includes many smaller islands and. Mummified skull of guanche woman indigenous people of canary islands displayed at museum of nature and man in santa cruz de tenerife. The canary islands have been known since antiquity until the spanish colonization between 1402 and 1496 the canaries were populated by an indigenous population whose origin is still the subject of discussion among historians and linguists. It is believed that they arrived on the archipelago some time in the first millennium bce.
The capital is santa cruz de tenerife. The canary islands are geographically located in the african tectonic plate even though the archipielago is economically and politically european as it is part of the european union. Canary islands autonomous community of spain established on august 10 1982 by statute of autonomy and consisting of an archipelago in the atlantic ocean off the coast of northwest africa. The white indians of the canary islands sep 1 2014 a serious student of pre spanish canary island culture gordon kennedy has been collecting historical information about the guanches since 1975 and is recognized as one of the world s authorities on this indo european anomaly with his guanche archives amongst the largest on earth.
However it wasn t until the 14th century that europeans started to settle on the canary islands particularly lanzarote. El hierro la palma la gomera tenerife gran canaria fuerteventura and lanzarote. With no invariant sections no front cover texts and no back cover texts. Canary islands la palma island la palma canary islands the 6 pictures above taken from wikimedia.
As more european explorers detailed the islands they encountered an indigenous population functioning on a neolithic level. Collectively these tribes were referred to as guanches. The canarian indigenous people is the name given to the early inhabitants of the canary islands an archipelago located on the atlantic ocean just 100 kilometres 62 miles off the southern cosat of morocco and integrated by seven islands from west to east. The islands were visited by the phoenicians the greeks and the carthaginians according to the 1st century ce roman author and philosopher pliny the.
The guanches were the aboriginal inhabitants of the canary islands. Canary singer serinus canaria spain canary islands el hierro island las puntas ecomuseo de guinea detail of the el hierro giant lizard.