Indigenous Legacy (Other Keyword)
1-1 (1 Record)
Exploring the Indigenous Roots of the Canary Islands’ Sugar Industry (Gran Canaria and Tenerife, Spain, 15th-16th Centuries) (2023)
DOCUMENT
Citation Only
This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Canary Islands were the first European colony in the Atlantic that had an Indigenous population. The colonial written records show that the Indigenous inhabitants of the archipelago built large hydraulic systems to irrigate their farming areas. However, it is still unclear whether and how...