La momificación o “mirlado” en la Protohistoria canaria: ¿un rito egiptizante asimilado?

Abstract

The first settlers of the Canary Islands were transported by people who knew the Oceanic navigation, Punic-Phoenicians, during the first half of the first millennium B.C. After the political and economical crisis affecting the Roman Empire during the 3RD Century A.D. the paleo-Canarian populations began a time of isolation during one thousand years and this favoured a specific development of the islands culture (cultural endemism)