Cultura material y vida cotidiana. Los inventarios de las mercerías y la arqueología. Los objetos arqueológicos en las tiendas de mercería de Tenerife en el siglo XVIII

Abstract

The Canarian commercial system established in the islands from the moment of the conquest should have prioritized the supply of the local market. The model implanted for the supply of the products of first necessity was the shop of haberdashery. A type of commerce settled in the family environment; from the location of the business to the administration of the company, the protagonism resided in the family. In this area of retail exchanges, women will occupy a prominent space. The haberdashery shops specialized in providing the Canarian society with objects of daily use: textiles, buttons, combs, ornaments…. These elements have not only left a trace in the documentary collections but also in the objects found in the archaeological excavations of historical chronology. These vestiges have allowed to date materially some elements of the domestic ajuares of the Canarian society of the illustrated century.