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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by xyyman: [qb] Point is Lioness. The indigenous people of the Canary Island will be very similar to peoples of the same geographic latitude like Mali, South Egypt, Mauritania etc. In other words, they are dark people closely related to Berbers of North Africa. Pale skin will not be synonymous to the Canary Islanders. Fortunately that is how science works.Any person who claims they are from the Canary Islands and is pale in skin..."is lying!!!!" [/qb][/QUOTE]wikipedia: [QUOTE] The islands may have been visited by the Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Carthaginians. King Juba II, Caesar Augustus's Numidian protégé, is credited with discovering the islands for the Western world. According to Pliny the Elder, Juba found the islands uninhabited, but found "a small temple of stone" and "some traces of buildings".[42] Juba dispatched a naval contingent to re-open the dye production facility at Mogador in what is now western Morocco in the early first century AD.[43] That same naval force was subsequently sent on an exploration of the Canary Islands, using Mogador as their mission base.[citation needed] The Romans named the individual islands Ninguaria or Nivaria (Tenerife), Canaria (Gran Canaria), Pluvialia or Invale (Lanzarote), Ombrion (La Palma), Planasia (Fuerteventura), Iunonia or Junonia (El Hierro) and Capraria (La Gomera). When the Europeans began to explore the islands in the late Middle Ages, they encountered several indigenous peoples living at a Neolithic level of technology. Although the prehistory of the settlement of the Canary Islands is still unclear, linguistic and genetic analyses seem to indicate that at least some of these inhabitants shared a common origin with the Berbers of Tamazgha.[44] The pre-colonial inhabitants came to be known collectively as the Guanches, although Guanches had been the name for only the indigenous inhabitants of Tenerife [/QUOTE] https://www.webtenerife.co.uk/tenerife/history/the-guanches/las+momias+guanches.htm According to the research carried out in studying the Guanche mummies, these burials were used at least from the 3rd century until the conquest of the Canary Islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanche_mummy_of_Madrid Guanche mummy of Madrid It is a person of masculine sex only for its excellent state of preservation. Is believed to date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD, and belongs to a man between 30 and 34 years and, according to experts, would be the best Guanche preserved mummy in the world. __________________________________________________ ^ That is AD, very recent That is not old enough to to relate the mummies to a period long enough to assume they are biologically adapted to the Canary islands It is unknown how long humans have been on the island or if the people that the Europeans found there in 1402 were related to the first inhabitants. [IMG]https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/afp_uk82b.jpg?w=810[/IMG] [IMG]https://images2.imgbox.com/a7/d1/qRN74Yrz_o.png[/IMG] [QUOTE] Extract from the Natural History of Pliny the Elder Pliny the Elder (AD 23 - 79) was a Roman soldier and administrator. He was a tireless collector of information, to the extent that he was killed whilst trying to observe an eruption of Mt Vesuvius at close quarters. His Natural History is a compilation of over 20,000 'facts' derived from over 2,000 earlier texts, covering subjects from astronomy to zoology. This makes it one of the most important sources of ancient knowledge and beliefs. The extract below (Book 6, paragraph 37) is the most complete classical description of the Canary Islands - though its difficult to relate much of the description to any modern map ! The principal source of information is Juba II, who was king of the Roman Protectorate of Mauretania in North Africa, and sent an expedition to explore the Canary Islands. [i]'Some people think that beyond the islands of Mauretania lie the Isles of Bliss (Canaries), and also some others of which Sebosus before mentioned gives not only the number but also the distances, reporting that Junonia (La Palma) is 750 miles from Cadiz, and that Pluvialia (El Hierro) and Capraria (La Gomera) are the same distance west from Junonia; that in Pluvialia there is no water except what is supplied by rain; that the Isles of Bliss are 250 miles WNW from these, to the left hand of Mauretania (Morocco), and that one is called Invallis (Tenerife ?) from its undulating surface and the other Planasia (Gran Canaria ?) from its conformation, Invallis measuring 300 miles round; and that on it trees grow to a height of 140 ft. About the Isles of Bliss Juba has ascertained the following facts; they lie in a southwesterly direction, at a distance of 625 miles sail from the Purple Islands, provided that a course be laid north of due west for 250 miles, and then east for 375 miles; that the first island reached is called Ombrios (El Hierro), and there are no traces of buildings upon it, but it has a pool surrounded by mountains, and trees resembling the giant fennel, from which water is extracted, the black ones giving a bitter fluid and those of brighther colour a juice that is agreeable to drink; that the second island is called Junonia, and that there is a small temple on it built of only a single stone; and that in its neighbourhood there is a smaller island of the same name, and then Capraria, which swarms with large lizards; and that in view from these islands is Ninguaria (Tenerife ?), so named from its perpetual snow, and wrapped in cloud; and next to it one named Canaria (Gran Canaria), from its multitude of dogs of a huge size (two of these were brought back for Juba). He said that in this island there are traces of buildings; that while they all have an abundant supply of fruit and of birds of every kind, Canaria also abounds in palm-groves bearing dates and in conifers; that in addition to this there is a large supply of honey, and also papryus grows in the rivers, and sheat-fish; and that these islands are plagued with the rotting carcasses of monstrous creatures that are constantly being cast ashore by the sea.' [/i] [/QUOTE]^ no mention of people [/QB][/QUOTE]
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