June 15 and 16, archaeology days at The Canary Museum

THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD. ARCHAEOLOGICAL MICRORRELATES FOR AN INDIGENOUS STORY On

the occasion of the three-dimensional modeling of three of the mummies that The Canary Museum preserves, this institution organizes a few days that will introduce new archaeological views to the indigenous past. Bones, teeth, tombs and other materialities will allow us to discover biographies of women, men, adults and children from which to enter the society built by the ancient canaries. T

HURSDAY, JUNE 15

17:30 Presentation of the project "Momias. 3D biographies". Jonathan Santana Cabrera (Vocal of the Governing Board of The Canary Museum. Researcher at Tarha Group, UlPGC Department of Historical Sciences)

18:00 The invisible: microhistory of the child population among the ancient canaries. Javier Velasco Vázquez (Professor of the Department of Historical Sciences at ULPGC. Cabildo de Gran Canaria)

It was very recently when archaeology has begun to pay attention to the role of children in those societies that are historically explained through their material remains. Thus, in our looks at the past, a very important section of the population had gone unnoticed, subtracting wealth and diversity from the reconstructions of the pre-Hispanic Canarian society proposed so far. There is no doubt that children are social actors of paramount importance in any human grouping, capable of generating a particular and recognizable archaeological record, but also prominent protagonists of social practices that guarantee the biological and cultural continuity of any population. Where to find the traces of these people in the Canary Archaeological Record? What testimonies did you leave your existence? How to interpret them? What was your role in this society? Questions all of them that will try to be raised, at least as a starting point from which to address some microhistory of these invisibles.

19:00 A look at the indigenous society of Gran Canaria from the genre. Teresa Delgado Darias (Conservative of THE Canary
Museum) Gender relations are culturally constructed and therefore cannot be understood in a universal way. They vary from one company to another as they do within them over time. Variables such as social status, age of the person are involved in its configuration… Gender relations structure and organize societies, so going into the way they are built will allow us to understand and know more fully any human group of the past and the present.
Archaeological studies developed in recent decades around the ancient Canaries have provided a rich information that brings us closer to the ways of life of this society from gender relations. This talk aims to offer a tour of such data and the historical interpretation that derives from them, trying to rescue at a time the prominence and contribution of indigenous women in the configuration of the society they inhabited

. FRIDAY 16 JUNE1

8:00 Memento Mori. The management of death among the ancient canaries. Veronica Alberto Barroso (Archaeologist of Tibicena. Archaeology and Heritage S.
L.) Like any important aspect of life, death involves a complex system of rules and practices that regulate the end of people's biological existence and their new status as the deceased. However, in the case of the first Canarian cultures has often tended to analyze them as a plot disconnected from the daily reality of these communities, generating a false dichotomy materialized in the so-called concepts: world of the living vs world of the dead. Death as a social fact, beyond the territorial implementation of cemeteries to house the corpses, is a common event organized from strict rules of management that determine the funeral conception of the canaries. This conception is expressed in a series of practices and activities that incorporate different cultural aspects, to end up expressing the legitimization and naturalization of a specific social situation. They are, therefore, codes of symbolic expression of cohesion and identity, but also of social asymmetry. These practices cover different expressions and a wide number of aspects including from strictly technological to the production of complex meanings.19

:00 Technology applied to heritage: application case studies for documentation, conservation and dissemination. Ibán Suárez Medina (Archaeologist of Tibicena. Archaeology and Heritage
S.L.) In recent years, cultural heritage professionals have massively incorporated diverse workflows that integrate multiple emerging technologies applied to heritage virtualization. Especially important has been the emergence of photogrammetry as a technique of three-dimensional documentation of cultural goods.
This talk will offer an overview of the different possibilities offered by all these techniques through the exposure of various specific application cases that the company Tibicena Arqueología y Patrimonio S.L. has been developing in recent years.