La leyenda del poblamiento de Canarias por africanos de lenguas cortadasgénesis, contextualización e inviabilidad arqueológica de un relato ideado en la segunda mitad del siglo XIV
ISSN: 0213-2818
Year of publication: 2002
Issue: 11
Pages: 47-72
Type: Article
More publications in: Tabona: Revista de Prehistoria y de Arqueología
Abstract
The legend of the cut tongues, present in the works of diverse tellers and ethnohistoricians that wrote about the Canary Islands from the 14th century on, has wanted to be used as a truthful story to explain the first human colonization of the islands. A new vision and interpretation of the written sources and of the archaeological data allow us to offer a new vision of the referred legend, discarding their sought empiric character and reflecting that we are in front of an invented story that sinks its roots in the Jewish and Christian cosmovision, which prevails until well entered the 19th century.