Islands are among the last regions on Earth settled and transformed by human activities,
and they provide replicated model systems for analysis of how people affect ecological …

The indigenous population of the Canary Islands, which colonized the archipelago around
the 3rd century CE, provides both a window into the past of North Africa and a unique model …

Oceanic islands remained free of humans until relatively recent times. On contact, humans
encountered pristine environments with unique ecosystems and species highly vulnerable …

The establishment of European colonies across the world had important demographic
consequences because it brought together diverse and distant civilizations for the first time …

The human colonization of the Canary Islands represents the sole known expansion of
Berber communities into the Atlantic Ocean and is an example of marine dispersal carried …

Abstract The Canary Islands were settled ca. 1,800 years ago by Amazigh/Berber farming
populations originating in North Africa. This historical event represents the last and …

Island archaeology is a well-established field within the wider discipline, but African
contributions to it remain scarce. The Canary Islands are unusual in the broader African …

Ordenar los procesos históricos en las culturas arqueológicas es una labor de gran
complejidad cuando carecemos de las fechas en que se enmarcan tales procesos. Esa …

Este trabajo aborda el estudio de la dinámica poblacional y demográfica de la ocupación
prehispánica de Gran Canaria. Para ello se ha recurrido al análisis de la distribución del …

Lipid biomarker analysis focused on steroids has shown to have great potential for
discriminating between animal faecal inputs in archaeology. This is particularly interesting …