In the next article we bring you, we want to tell you about some history. History of our country or, rather, of a part of it. In particular of the inhabitants of the Canary Islands , but we are not going to talk about contemporary canaries as famous as Javier Bardem, but of much older inhabitants of the area. Specifically, in today's article, we're going to talk about the aborigines of the Canary Islands; an inhabitant that has now been put face.
The Guanches: aborigines of the Canary Islands
Long before the Canary Islands became a vacation paradise, long before Javier Bardem was born, the archipelago belonged to the Guanche people.
The origin of this town is related to the Berber tribes that lived in North Africa. This is extracted from the numerous geographical names and terms that are still conserved of the primitive inhabitants of the archipelago, very similar to the Berber dialects, and in particular those of the Atlas Moroccan .
In September 1992 an inscription was found on a rock that confirmed the Berber origin of the Guanches. Remains of pots and woods that correspond to the animistic religious ritual, typical of these towns, have also been found in the area. The inscription that appears on the rock, is inscribed in Carthaginian characters.
How would that aborigine of the Canary Islands be?
This indigenous group inhabited the Canary Islands from the 1st to the 15th century CE. The dominion of this town ended when the Europeans arrived and in the name of the king and the queen, they took the islands throwing to the guanches and erasing their culture to their step.
Very few vestiges of that culture and the style of guanche life we can find today However, some data we have and come from the records of the Castilian invaders of the time, which does not give us much confidence that they are reliable.
Now, after 600 years of his death, an indigenous islander has returned to life after his death , figuratively, thanks to a digital project of facial reconstruction, something like a facial resurrection. It is one of the best estimates of how it would be, today, a Canarian Indian.
Who carried out this resurrection was Karina Osswald, a graduate student at the University of Dundee, Scotland , who used it as the final project of his forensic career.
To achieve this reconstruction of the aborigine of the Canary Islands, Karina took 3D scans of the skull of the islander, which was safely stored in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh. From that, he gradually built his face from the bones and added tissue, facial features and, finally, some hair . The result was amazing
"What I have created is a rough estimate of the ASPECT THAT ONE of these islanders would have",
said Osswald and added:
"However, recent literature suggests that appearances differ between each island of the Canary archipelago. This could mean that, with more research, someday we can get a clearer idea of the individual differences between each group of Guanche islands. "
The ancestry of the Guanches is a somewhat thorny and delicate subject, but most anthropologists who have studied the culture and history of the Canary Islands , believe that they descend mainly from the Berber people of West Africa , such as Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco .
There is more data on the history of this territory. In the Canary Islands some ancient mummies were found suggesting that they might have adopted some of the funeral practices of North African origin.
Nevertheless, some recent evidence suggests that part of their DNA may come from a population of European Stone Age farmers.
What we do know, for sure, is that the current inhabitants of the Canary Islands have inherited between 16 and 31 percent of their genetics from their Guanche ancestors. That means that while the Guanche people faced "extinction" by the Spanish invasion, some of them survived in European culture through marriage, particularly if they belonged to the mother line.
This face, which is the reconstruction of an aborigine from the Canary Islands, is currently on display at Dundee's Duncan of the Jordanstone College of Art & Design Masters Show in Scotland.
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