De antropología, ritos y creencias funerarias en la Protohistoria de Lanzarote (Islas Canarias)

Abstract

Cultural diversity and island’s syndrome justify by themselves the existence in the Canary Islands of beliefs and funerary rituals that, although after losing their original significance, show strong relationships with those Egyptian, Punic-Phoenician and Roman origin. Lanzarote is, perhaps, the island of the archipelago where more Mediterranean cultural elements have been documented. This paper deals with the analyses of religious beliefs and funerary practices as well as with the bioanthropological characteristics of the island’s population from a multidisciplinary work performed by archaeologists, bioanthropologists and historians of several scientific institutions of the Canaries.