Written in stones: The Amazigh colonization of the Canary Islands

2015/01/01 by José Farrujia de la Rosa · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Hispanic-African Historical Relations #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #Archaeological and Historical Studies

paper · doi:10.4000/corpus.2641

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Abstract

According to the archaeological data, the ancient colonization of the Canary Islands was initiated at the beginnings of the 1st millennium BC, by Imazighen populations. This colonization propitiated the introduction in the Canarian Archipielago of the Lybico-Berber inscriptions, among other cultural elements from the North African Amazigh world. In the following pages we analyze the ancient colonization of the Canary Islands in light of the study of Libyco–Berber inscriptions, Latino Canarian scripts, and indigenous material culture.

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