In the next article that we bring you, we want to tell you about some history.History of Spain or, rather, a part of this country.In particular of the inhabitants of the Canary Islands, but we will not talk about current canaries as famous as Javier Bardem, but of much older inhabitants of the area.Specifically, in today's article, we will talk about the aboriginal of the Canary Islands; an inhabitant who has now been put on a face.
The Guanches: aborigines of the Canary Islands
Long before the Canary Islands became in a holiday 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.the numerous geographical names and terms that are still preserved from the primitive inhabitants of the archipelago, very similar to the Berber dialects, and in particular to those of the Moroccan Atlas.
In September 1992 a inscription on a rock that has confirmed the Berber origin of the Guanches. Remains of vessels and wood have been found in the area give to the animistic religious ritual, typical of these peoples.The inscription that appears on the rock, is inscribed in Carthaginian characters.
How would that aboriginal of the Canary Islands be?
This Indigenous group inhabited the Canary Islands from the 1st to the 15th century CE.The domain of this town ended when the Europeans arrived and on behalf of the king and queen, they took the islands by throwing the Guanches and erasing their culture in their path.p>
Very few vestiges of that culture and the Guanche lifestyle 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 trustworthy.
Now, after 600 years of his death, an indigenous islander has come back to life after his death , of figuratively, thanks to a digital facial reconstruction project, something like a facial resurrection.It is one of the best estimates It is as it would be, today, an indigenous Canarian.
Who carried out this resurrection was Karina Osswald, a graduate student of The University of Dundee, in Scotland , who used it as the final project of her forensic career.
To get this reconstruction of the aboriginal of the Canary Islands, Karina took 3D scanners of the islander skull , which was safely 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 an estimate of THE ASPECT THAT WOULD HAVE or of these islanders »,
said Osswald and added:
« However, recent literature suggests that appearances differ between each island in the Canary archipelago This could mean that, with more research, one day we can get a clearer idea of the individual differences between each group of Guanche Islands ».
The ancestry of the Guanches is a theme a both thorny and delicate, but most of the anthropologists who have studied the culture and history of the Canary Islands, believe that they descend primarily from the Berber people of West Africa , such as Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.
There is more information about the history of this territory.In the Canary Islands there were some old mummies that suggest that you can rian have adopted some of funerary practices of North African origin.
However, 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, which means that while the Guanche people faced the "extinction" by the Spanish invasion, some of them survived in European culture through marriage, particularly if they belonged to the maternal line.
This face, which is the reconstruction of an aboriginal of the Canary Islands, is currently in an exhibition at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art&Design Masters Show, in Scotland.
What do you think about our article on the reconstruction of an old Guanche, the aboriginal of the Canary Islands? Do you know the data we have given you about this area of Spain? What do you think of the work Karina Osswald did? Do you think the reconstruction of the aboriginal of the Canary Islands is reliable? Tell us your opinion, we will be happy to read you!
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