Hornos de brea en TenerifeIdentificación y catalogación
- Viña Brito, Ana del Carmen
- González Rodríguez, Román
ISSN: 0213-9472
Année de publication: 2008
Número: 190
Pages: 111-133
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Revista de Historia Canaria
Résumé
The production of pitch or tar was of great importance to the Tenerife economy from the latter part of the XV century, as can be derived from the documentation of the period. In this work we approach the archaeological strata of the pitch ovens in the XVI and XVII centuries by cataloguing and identifying them in the various historical territorial divisions of the island. In addition to their heritage value these ovens are tracers of the locations of the afforested areas, of the traffic routes, and of the earliest sites where pitch was produced in the Island of Tenerife.