Written in stones: The Amazigh colonization of the Canary Islands

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...

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izdano v:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/corpus,
Glavni avtor: Farrujia de la Rosa, José
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Izdano: Corpus 2017
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Online dostop:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Izvleček: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.