Cronología y función del poblado de cabañas del Barranco de Las Ovejas, Lomo de Las Casas o Los Corrales (El Paso, Isla de La Palma)

Abstract

The Island Council plans protect and enhancement this little village of over a hundred structures, which were attributed to the Aboriginal with a subsequent reuse. The Council comissioned us archaeological surveys in order to obtain objective data to offer the visitor. It has been inferred that there are cabins and corrals. The huts are circular or oval with solid stone-walls, beaten mud floor and a little cave on the wall. The corrals are more larger, irregular floor and walls less elaborate. According to the results of the excavations, the village is not older than the eighteenth century and had its peak period in the nineteenth. In the following century were reused some cabins and corrals were built. No confirmed Aboriginal occupation of this place, although there is evidence in some caves nearby. Our interpretation is that they settled in this village many people at the end of the summer, in order to digging fern root. In the twentieth century was a place of seasonal settlement of shepherds and their flocks.