From 13 to 15 December, the First Days of "Archeology of Conflict", organized by the Historical Heritage Unit of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, are held in the House of Columbus, it is all yours. This initiative brings together various Canarian specialists in the field, who will address different moments in the history of the island of Gran Canaria marked by violence. The Canary Museum participates in these days with the conference "The head injuries of the former canaries: analysis and reflections", by Teresa Delgado Darias, curator of the instit
ution." Violence in societies of the past can be studied through various testimonies of the archaeological record, but it is undoubtedly the wastes that gather the most direct evidence of the role that behavior could have in a human group. This responds to the nature and characteristics of our skeleton allowing at least part of the violent encounters that may occur throughout an individual's life to be engraved on his bones. Hence the relevance of the bone record in dealing with an issue such as violence in now-defunct populations. However,
it is necessary that the analysis of bone injuries linked to violence should be inserted into the social and cultural context of the particular society being studied. Only in this way will a historical and reliable interpretation of such bone manifestations be achieved, going beyond a mere description and enumeration of
casuistics. Based on this biocultural perspective, the results of the study of cranial lesions of a sample of gran Canaria are now presented. Through the prevalence and pattern of trauma documented in them, and addressing such testimonies from the socioeconomic and cultural structure of that population, we will try to delve a little deeper into the lives of these first settlers of Gran Canari