Trazas vitales, huellas, mortalespaleopatología craneal de la población guanche de Pino Leris (Tenerife, Canarias)

Résumé

Osteoarchaeology offers us a series of methodological tools and theoretical frameworks to approximate the life and death of the aboriginal populations that inhabited the mountainous areas of Tenerife. For this, we offer a study carried out on 24 cranial remains from the Pino Leris funerary cave (La Orotava), currently deposited in the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology of the Universidad de Granada. Thus, in this skeletal collection, we have observed oral, traumatic, and tumoral alterations, studied using techniques of Dental Anthropology and Paleopathology. These refer to a Guanche population with a high life expectancy and a relatively balanced mixed diet despite presenting certain diseases and signs of carrying out dangerous and violent practices.