Guanches

The Guanche were the historic

In 2017, the first genome-wide data from the ethnic Guanche confirmed a North African origin. They were genetically most similar to ancient North African Berber peoples of the nearby African mainland.^[5]

Etymology

The native term guanachinet literally translated means "person of Tenerife" (from Guan = person and Achinet = Tenerife).^[1] It was modified, according to Juan Núñez de la Peña, by the Castilians into "Guanche".^[6] Though etymologically an ancient, Tenerife-specific, term, the word Guanche is now used mostly to refer to the pre-Hispanic Indigenous inhabitants of the entire archipelago.^[7]

Historical background

Prehistory

Genetic and linguistic evidence show that northern African people made a significant contribution to the aboriginal population of the Canaries following desertification of the Sahara at some point after 6000 BC. There are ties between the Guanche language and the Berber languages of North Africa, particularly when comparing numeral systems.^[8][9]

Research into the genetics of the Guanche population have led to the conclusion that they share an ancestry with Berber peoples.^[5][10]

The islands were visited by a number of peoples within recorded history. The

Based on Roman artifacts found on and near the island of Lanzarote, the Romans occupied northern Africa and visited the Canaries between the 1st and 4th centuries AD. These artifacts show that Romans did trade with people of the Canaries, though there is no evidence of them ever settling there.^[13] Archaeology of the Canaries seems to reflect diverse levels of technology, some differing from the Neolithic culture that was encountered by the Spanish at the time of conquest.

Scholars believe that the settlement of the

Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and military office, drew from the accounts of Juba II, king of Mauretania, to state that a Mauretanian expedition to the islands around 50 BC found the ruins of great buildings, but otherwise no population to speak of.^[14] If this account is accurate, it may suggest that the Guanche were not the only inhabitants, or the first ones;^[1] or that the Mauretanian expedition did not explore the islands thoroughly.^{[citation needed]}

Tenerife, specifically the archaeological site of the Cave of the Guanches in Icod de los Vinos, has provided evidence of habitation dates dating to the 6th century BC. This is based on analysis of ceramics that were found inside the cave.^[15]

Strictly speaking, the Guanche were the Indigenous peoples of Tenerife. The population seems to have lived in relative isolation up to the time of the Castilian conquest, around the 14th century. (Genoese, Portuguese, and Castilians may have visited there for trade from the second half of the 8th century onward.) The Spanish gradually applied the term to the Indigenous populations of all seven Canary Islands,^[1] those of Tenerife being the most important or powerful.

What remains of their language, Guanche—a few expressions, vocabulary words and the proper names of ancient chieftains still borne by certain families^[1]—exhibits positive similarities with the Berber languages.^[8][9] The first reliable account of the Guanche language was provided by the Genoese explorer Nicoloso da Recco in 1341, with a translation of numbers used by the islanders.

According to European chroniclers, the Guanche did not possess a system of writing at the time of conquest; the writing system may have fallen into disuse or aspects of it were simply overlooked by the colonizers. Inscriptions, glyphs and rock paintings and carvings are quite abundant throughout the islands. Petroglyphs attributed to various Mediterranean civilizations have been found on some of the islands.

In 1752,

The geographic accounts of Pliny the Elder and of Strabo mention the Fortunate Isles but do not report anything about their populations.

An account of the Guanche population may have been made around AD 1150 by the Arab geographer

Apart from the marvelous and fanciful content of this history, this account suggests that the Guanche had sporadic contacts with populations from the mainland. Al-Idrisi described the Guanche men as tall and of a reddish-brown complexion.[17]

During the 14th century, the Guanche are presumed to have had other contacts with Balearic seafarers from Spain. This is based on the Balearic artifacts found on several of the Canary Islands.^{[citation needed]}

Castilian conquest

The Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands began in 1402, with the expedition of Jean de Béthencourt and Gadifer de la Salle to the island of Lanzarote. Gadifer invaded Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.

The other five islands fought back. El Hierro and the Bimbache population were the next to fall, then La Gomera, Gran Canaria, La Palma and in 1496, Tenerife.

In the

Lugo later returned to the island with the alliance of the kings of the southern part of the island. He defeated the Guanches in the Battle of Aguere. The northern Menceyatos or provinces fell after the Second Battle of Acentejo with the defeat of the successor of Bencomo, Bentor, Mencey of Taoro—what is now the Orotava Valley—in 1496.

Various scholars have used the term "genocide" to describe the conquest of the Canary Islands.^[2][18][19] Mohamed Adhikhari argues that the Canary Islands were the scene of "Europe's first overseas settler colonial genocide," and that the mass killing and enslavement of natives, along with forced deportation, sexual violence and confiscation of land and children constituted an attempt to "destroy in whole" the Guanche people.^[2] The tactics used in the Canary Islands in the 15th century served as a model for the Iberian colonisation of the Americas.^[2][18]

Language

The native Guanche language is now known only through a few sentences and individual words, supplemented by several placenames. Many modern linguists propose that it belongs to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic languages.^[8][9][20]

However, while there are recognizable Berber words (particularly with regards to agriculture) within the Guanche language, no Berber grammatical inflections have been identified; there is a large stock of vocabulary that does not bear any resemblance to Berber whatsoever.^[21]

Other strong similarities to the Berber languages are reflected in their counting system, while some authors suggest the Canarian branch would be a sister branch to the surviving continental Berber languages, splitting off during the early development of the language family and before the terminus post quem for the origin of Proto-Berber.^[22]

System of beliefs

Religion and mythology

Little is known of the religion of the Guanches. There was a general belief in a supreme being, called

In Tenerife, Magec (god of the Sun) and Chaxiraxi (the goddess mother) were also worshipped. In times of drought, the Guanches drove their flocks to consecrated grounds, where the lambs were separated from their mothers in the belief that their plaintive bleating would melt the heart of the Great Spirit.^[1] During the religious feasts, hostilities were held in abeyance, from war to personal quarrels.

Aboriginal priests

The Guanches had

Guatimac

Festivities

Beñesmen or Beñesmer was a festival of the agricultural calendar of the Guanches (the Guanche new year) to be held after the gathering of crops devoted to Chaxiraxi (on August 15). In this event the Guanches shared milk, gofio, sheep or goat meat. At the present time, this coincides with the pilgrimage to the Basilica of the Virgin of Candelaria (Patron of Canary Islands).

Among the cultural events are significant traces of aboriginal traditions at the holidays and in the current Romería Relief in Güímar (Tenerife) and the lowering of the Rama, in Agaete (Gran Canaria).^[29]

Funerals and mummies

Mummification was not commonly practiced throughout the islands but was highly developed on Tenerife in particular. In Gran Canaria there is currently a debate on the true nature of the mummies of the ancient inhabitants of the island, as researchers point out that there was no real intention to mummify the deceased and that the good conservation of some of them is due rather to environmental factors.^[30] In La Palma they were preserved by these environmental factors and in La Gomera, and El Hierro the existence of mummification is not verified. In Lanzarote and Fuerteventura this practice is ruled out.

The Guanches embalmed their dead; many mummies have been found in an extreme state of desiccation, each weighing not more than 3 kg (7 lb). Two almost inaccessible caves in a vertical rock by the shore 5 km (3 mi) from Santa Cruz on Tenerife are said still to contain remains. The process of embalming seems to have varied. In Tenerife and Gran Canaria, the corpse was simply wrapped up in goat and sheep skins, while in other islands a resinous substance was used to preserve the body, which was then placed in a cave difficult to access, or buried under a tumulus.^[31] The work of embalming was reserved for a special class, with women tending to female corpses, and men for the male ones. Embalming seems not to have been universal.^[1]

In the

In 1933, the largest Guanche necropolis of the Canary Islands was found, at Uchova in the municipality of San Miguel de Abona in the south of the island of Tenerife. This cemetery was almost completely looted; it is estimated to have contained between 60 and 74 mummies.^[32]

Sacrifices

Although little is known about this practice among them, it has been shown that they performed both

In Tenerife during the summer solstice, the Guanches killed livestock and threw them into a fire as an offering to the gods.^[33] Bethencourt Alfonso has claimed that goat kids were tied by the legs, alive, to a stake so that they could be heard bleating by the gods. It is likely that animals were also sacrificed on the other islands.^[33]

As for human sacrifices, in Tenerife it was the custom to throw a living child from the Punta de Rasca at sunrise at the summer solstice. Sometimes these children came from all parts of the island, even from remote areas of Punta de Rasca. It follows that it was a common custom of the island.^[33] On this island sacrificing other human victims associated with the death of the king, where adult men rushed to the sea are also known. Embalmers who produced the Guanche mummies also had a habit of throwing themselves into the sea one year after the king's death.^[33]

Bones of children mixed with lambs and kids were found in Gran Canaria, and in Tenerife amphorae have been found with remains of children inside. This suggests a different kind of ritual infanticide than those who were thrown overboard.^[34]

Child sacrifice has been seen in other cultures, especially in the

The political and social institutions of the Guanches varied. In some islands like Gran Canaria, hereditary autocracy by matrilineality prevailed,^[35] in others the government was elective. In Tenerife all the land belonged to the kings who leased it to their subjects.^[1] In Gran Canaria, suicide was regarded as honorable, and whenever a new king was installed, one of his subjects willingly honored the occasion by throwing himself over a precipice.^[1][36] In some islands, polyandry was practised;^[1] in others they were monogamous. Insult of a woman by an armed man was allegedly a capital offense.^[1] Anyone accused of a crime had to attend a public trial in Tagoror, a public court where those prosecuted were sentenced after a trial.

The island of Tenerife was divided into nine small kingdoms (menceyatos), each ruled by a king or Mencey. The Mencey was the ultimate ruler of the kingdom, and at times, meetings were held between the various kings. When the Castilians invaded the Canary Islands, the southern kingdoms joined the Castilian invaders on the promise of the richer lands of the north; the Castilians betrayed them after ultimately securing victory at the Battles of Aguere and Acentejo.

Kings (Menceys) of Tenerife

• Menceyato de Tacoronte
• Menceyato de Abona
• Menceyato de Güímar
• Menceyato de Taoro
• Menceyato de Anaga
• Menceyato de Adeje
• Menceyato de Icode
• Menceyato de Daute
• Menceyato de Tegueste

In Tenerife, the grand Mencey Tinerfe and his father Sunta governed the unified island, which afterwards was divided into nine kingdoms by the children of Tinerfe.

Clothes and weapons

Guanches wore

garments made from goat skins or woven from plant fibers called Tamarcos, which have been found in the tombs of Tenerife. They had a taste for ornaments and necklaces of wood, bone and shells, worked in different designs. Beads of baked earth, cylindrical and of all shapes, with smooth or polished surfaces, mostly colored black and red, were fairly common. Dr. René Verneau suggested that the objects the Castilians referred to as pintaderas, baked clay seal-shaped objects, were used as vessels for painting the body in various colours. They manufactured rough pottery

, mostly without decorations, or ornamented by making fingernail indentations.

Guanche weapons adapted to the insular environment (using wood, bone,

wooden swords

(larger than the European two-handed type) called Magido, which were said to be very effective against both infantrymen and cavalry. Weaponry made of wood was hardened with fire. These armaments were commonly complemented with an obsidian knife known as Tabona.

Dwellings were situated in natural or artificial caves in the mountains. In areas where cave dwellings were not feasible, they built small round houses and, according to the Castilians, practiced crude fortification.

Presumed Guanche names of the Canary Islands

Spanish	Guanche
Tenerife	Achinech
	Achineche
	Asensen
La Gomera	Gomera
	Gomahara
La Palma	Benahoare
El Hierro	Eseró
	Heró
Gran Canaria	Tamaran
Lanzarote	Titerogakaet
	Titeroigatra
Fuerteventura	Maxorata
	Erbania
	Erbani

Gallery

• 
  Pottery
• 
  Mencey baton
• 
  Guatimac idol
• 
  Stone artefacts

Genetics

Grand Canaria by Leonardo Torriani

, 1592

Further information: Bimbache § Genetics

See also:

Kelif el Boroud § Genetics

U6b1. U6b1 is found at very low frequencies in North Africa today, and it was suggested that later developments have significantly altered the Berber gene pool. The authors of the study suggested that the Guanches were descended from migrants from mainland North Africa related to the Berbers, and that the Guanches contributed c. 42–73% to the maternal gene pool of modern Canary Islanders.^[37]

Mediterranean. It was found that Guanche males contributed less to the gene pool of modern Canary Islanders than Guanche females (as would be expected from the extremely bloody conquest of the islands). Haplogroups typical among the Guanche have been found at high frequencies in Latin America, suggesting that descendants of the Guanche played an active role in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.^[38]

Grand Canaria by Leonardo Torriani

, 1592

West Eurasian origin, while 7% were of sub-Saharan African origin. About 15% of their West Eurasian maternal lineages are specific to Europe and the Near East rather than North Africa, suggesting that the Benahoaritas traced partial descent from either of these regions. The examined Benahoaritas were found to have high frequencies of the maternal haplogroups U6b1 and H1-16260. U6b1 has not been found in North Africa, while H1-16260 is "extremely rare." The results suggested that the North African population from whom the Benahoaritas and other Guanches descended has been largely replaced by subsequent migrations.^[39]

U6, which is characteristic of Guanches. It was suggested that the U6 was brought to North Africa by Cro-Magnon-like humans from the Near East during the Upper Paleolithic, who were probably responsible for the formation of the Iberomaurusian culture.^[40] It was also suggested that the maternal haplogroup H1, also frequent among Guanches, was brought to North Africa during the Holocene by migrants from Iberia, who may have participated in the formation of the Capsian culture.^[40] In a further study, Secher et al. 2014 suggested that U6 was brought to the Levant from Central Europe in the Upper Paleolithic by people of the Aurignacian culture, forming the Levantine Aurignacian (c. 33000 BC), whose descendants had then further spread U6 as part of a remigration into Africa. U6b1a was suggested to have been brought to the Canary Islands during the initial wave of settlement by Guanches, while U6c1 was suggested to have been brought in a second wave.^[41]

U6c1 may have been introduced in a second wave of colonization affecting the other islands. It was noted that 44% of modern La Gomerans carry U6b1a. It was determined that La Gomerans have the highest amount of Guanche ancestry among modern Canary Islanders.^[42]

mtDNA belonged to the maternal haplogroup H1-1626. The Bimbache were identified as descendants of the first wave of Guanche settlers on the Canary Islands, as they lacked the paternal and maternal lineages identified with the hypothetical second wave.^[44]

Early European Farmer (EEF) ancestry, which probably spread into North Africa from Iberia during the Neolithic, or perhaps also later.^[46] One Guanche was also found to have ancestry related to European hunter-gathers, providing further evidence of prehistoric gene flow from Europe. It was estimated that modern Canary Islanders derive 16–31% of their atDNA from the Guanches.^[5]

Cardial Ware culture from Iberia to North Africa during the Neolithic. After the Kelif el Boroud people, additional European ancestry may have been brought to the region from Iberia by people of the Bell Beaker culture. Guanches were found to the genetically very similar to the Kelif el Boroud people.^[47] In a 2020 review Fregel et al. identified European Bronze Age ancestry in the Guanches, which could be explained by "the presence of Bell-Beaker pottery in the North African archaeological record," as well as observing a certain admixture "possibly related to trans-Saharan migrations".^[48]

Fregel et al. 2019 examined the mtDNA of 48 Guanches buried on all the islands of the Canaries. They were found to be carrying maternal lineages characteristic of North Africa, Europe and the Near East, with Eurasian lineages centered around the Mediterranean being the most common. It was suggested that some of these Eurasian haplogroups had arrived in the region through Chalcolithic and Bronze Age migrations from Europe. Genetic diversity was found to be the highest at Gran Canaria, Tenerife, and La Palma, while Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and particularly La Gomera and El Hierro had low diversity. Significant genetic differences were detected between Guanches of western and eastern islands, which supported the notion that Guanches were descended from two distinct migration waves. It was considered significant that 40% of all examined Guanches so far belonged to the maternal haplogroup H.^[49]

Serrano et al. 2023 analysed genome-wide data from 49 Guanche individuals, whose ancestry was modelled as comprising 73.3% Morocco Late Neolithic, 6.9% Morocco Early Neolithic, 13.4% Germany Bell Beaker and 6.4% Mota, on average. Germany Bell Beaker ancestry reached 16.2% and 17.9% in samples from Gran Canaria and Lanzarote respectively.^[50]

Mitochondrial DNA

Regarding mitochondrial DNA, the maternal lineages are characterized by the prevalence of North-African lineages, followed by Europeans and finally in an small percentage by Sub-Saharans. According to different studies, the percentages are the following:

	North-African	European	Sub-Saharan
Canary Islands[51]	57%	43%	0
Canary Islands[52]	50.2%	43.2%	6.6%
Gran Canaria[53]	55%	45%	0

Autosomal DNA

A 2018 study of 400 adult men and women of all the islands, except La Graciosa, examined the relationship of Canarian genetic diversity with the more prevalent complex diseases in the archipelago. It detected that Canarian DNA shows distinctive genetics, resulting from variables such as the geographical isolation of the islands, environmental adaptations and the historical mixture of Pre-Hispanic population of the archipelago (coming from North Africa), with European and Sub-Saharan individuals. Specifically, the study estimated that the Canarian population, at an autosomal level, is 75% European, 22% North-African and 3% Sub-Saharan.^[54]

The table below shows the genomic proportions of North African and Sub-Saharan African ancestry by island.^[55]

	North African			Sub-Saharan African
	Minimum	Average	Maximum	Minimum	Average	Maximum
Fuerteventura	0.218	0.255	0.296	0.011	0.027	0.046
Lanzarote	0.214	0.254	0.296	0.014	0.032	0.057
Gran Canaria	0.155	0.200	0.264	0.005	0.032	0.082
Tenerife	0.149	0.208	0.255	0.002	0.015	0.057
La Gomera	0.160	0.221	0.289	0.013	0.048	0.092
La Palma	0.170	0.200	0.245	0.000	0.013	0.032
El Hierro	0.192	0.246	0.299	0.005	0.020	0.032

Archeological sites

The main and most significant archaeological sites on each island are:^[56]

• Lanzarote: Zonzamas
• Fuerteventura: Montaña de Tindaya
• Gran Canaria: Painted Cave of Gáldar
• Tenerife: Masca's solar station
• La Gomera: Fortress of Chipude
• La Palma: Cave of Belmaco
• El Hierro: Archaeological zone of El Julan

Museums

Many of the islands' museums possess collections of archaeological material and human remains from the prehistory and history of the archipelago of the Canaries. Some of the most important are:

• Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre (Santa Cruz de Tenerife
  ).
• Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  ).
• Museum of History and Anthropology of Tenerife (Casa Lercaro, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife).
• Archaeological Museum of Puerto de la Cruz (Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife).

New religious movement

In 2001, the

Neopagan movement with several hundred followers, was founded in San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife).^[57][58]

Notable people

• Beneharo, mencey (transl. king) of Taoro on the island of Tenerife
• Bencomo, penultimate mencey of Taoro
• Tinguaro, sigoñe (transl. warrior) of Tenerife and half-brother of Bencomo
• Dácil, princess and daughter of Bencomo. She is known as the Pocahontas of the Canary Islands; she was presented to the King of Spain with her father and was married to the first Spanish settler.
• Tanausu, ruler of Aceró on the island of Benahoare
• Fernando Guanarteme (born Tenesor Semidan), king who aided Spanish conquest
• Maninidra, brother of Guanarteme
• Acaimo, mencey of Tacoronte on Tenerife

See also

• Guanche language
• Hamitic
• Silbo Gomero – a Guanche whistling language, still extant
• Isleños
• First Battle of Acentejo
• Battle of Aguere
• Second Battle of Acentejo
• Teide
• Achinet
• Animero
• Beñesmen

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• Roman Trade with the Canary Islands, Archaeology 50.3 (1997)
• The Voyages of Christopher Columbus
• E. G. Bourne, ed., The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot (New York, 1906) Archived 2010-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Guanche.

• Canary Islands – Los Guanches at Rare Plants
• Museums of Tenerife
• Archaeology of the Guanches and the Galdar Painted cave Archived 2020-02-02 at the Wayback Machine