The establishment of European colonies across the world had important demographic
consequences because it brought together diverse and distant civilizations for the first time …

The Canary Islands' indigenous people have been the subject of substantial archaeological,
anthropological, linguistic and genetic research pointing to a most probable North African …

Island archaeology is a well-established field within the wider discipline, but African
contributions to it remain scarce. The Canary Islands are unusual in the broader African …

Abstract The Canary Islands were settled in the first millennium AD by colonizers likely
originating from North Africa. The settlers developed a farming economy with barley as the …

Objectives In 2013, the burials of 36 individuals of putative African ancestry were discovered
during renovation of the Gaillard Center in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The …

African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive
overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed …

This article examines the relationship between literary and bioarchaeological approaches to
slavery, and investigates how the methods and priorities of each discipline might inform …

The conquest of the Canary Islands by Europeans began at the beginning of the 15th
century and culminated in 1496 with the surrender of the aborigines. The collapse of the …

Abstract The Canary Islands were initially colonized around 200 CE by North African Berber
populations who brought with them domestic plants and animals. These communities …

Numerous genetic studies have contributed to reconstructing the human history of the
Canary Islands population. The recent use of new ancient DNA targeted enrichment and …