The Teguise City Council, through the Department of Heritage and through an agreement with the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/Canary University Foundation of Las Palmas, collaborates in the National Research Project "Protohistoric colonization of the Canary archipelago: anthropological, cultural and environmental parameters", giving continuity to a long history of cooperation between both institutions.
"This line of cooperation is contributing to a better understanding of the cultural past of Teguise and Lanzarote and promoting its national and international dissemination through scientific publications, congresses, conferences and exhibitions", celebrates Oswaldo Betancort.
The research and scientific documentation of the archaeological heritage of Teguise, carried out by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, made up of researchers from both universities in the Canary Islands and directed by the Professor of Prehistory of the ULPGC, Professor Pablo Atoche Peña, has consisted of excavation tasks in two sites in the municipality of Teguise.
"The collaboration of Teguise has allowed tasks aimed at the consolidation, conservation and protection of the sites of El Bebedero and Buenavista to be carried out, carrying out a 3D scan of the second of these sites that has provided very precise information on the constructive characteristics of the buildings it contains and the possibility of carrying out planimetric surveys, virtual reconstructions and 3D visits", explained the Councilor for Heritage, Sara Bermúdez.
"During the excavation work, in addition to constructive structures, numerous and interesting finds have been recovered, including imported objects from the Roman cultural sphere, whose association with indigenous material contexts strengthens the hypothesis that emphasizes the interest that the Mediterranean cultures of Late Antiquity had in the Canary Islands and their resources", they point out from the Consistory.
Numerous samples have also been collected for C14 analysis, which will expand and reinforce the existing chronological series, which place the beginning of human colonization at the beginning of the first millennium BC. In addition, different types of studies will be carried out (DNA, Stable Isotopes, Phytoliths,...), essential to improve the knowledge that exists about indigenous communities and the notable environmental changes that affected the island of Lanzarote during the last three thousand years.
