Some historians say here and there that the Canarian aborigines did not know navigation or prehistoric metals. And I ask: if they did not know navigation, how then could they navigate ...
Some historians say here and there that the Canarian aborigines did not know navigation or prehistoric metals.
And I ask: if they did not know navigation, how then could they navigate from North Africa to the Canary Islands at different times and in several boats? -I don't think they made the trip swimming-, and no matter how primitive they were, they would realize while sailing that where they were going was a ship that floated and transported them to where they had decided to emigrate or where they were taken by force.
And how can it be explained that in their initial primitive period of stay in the Canary Islands they were unaware of metals that they already knew in North Africa before arriving in the Canary Islands?, for example some of the prehistoric ones such as iron, brass, copper, gold, etc.
I believe that the reasons that led the Guanches to abandon the practice of navigation a few hundred years after their arrival on the different islands were possibly several: to eliminate any trace that revealed them because they were afraid of being captured as slaves: the fact that the Canary Islands lacked metal mines, and the distance for hundreds of years from their homeland that made them lose all contact with the outside world, leading to the fact that they could not import metal tools and with it they forgot how to make boats.
But in all this historical mess what I don't understand is: how and in what way could those from the island of Fuerteventura, if they did not know navigation, help those from Lanzarote, back in 1312, to expel Lancellotto Malocello?.
This historical data seems to affirm that the Guanche aborigines maintained the art of navigation until approximately the year 1400, which they would later abandon for fear of being captured and enslaved by slave-owning conquerors, as were all those who arrived in the Canary Islands after that date, alleging the reason that the infidels should be civilized for the kingdom of the Christian god.
P.D. It is also possible that the Guanches did not know the prehistoric metals because they arrived in the Canary Islands before their discovery in the Middle East, but saying this is the same as confirming that our ancestors progressively arrived on the islands at the time of Noah's birth, 1056 Jewish Calendar, or 2788 BC.
P.D. Please, give me your knowledge. Thank you.