Hi Jellyfish, here's some info about the Canary Islands in general.
Back in the XVth century AD, the word ‘extermination’ was hurriedly replaced by ‘colonisation’ and ‘civilisation’ in the minds of the early modern Christian invaders of the islands. On arriving there, a ‘very civilised and polite’ (according to some visitors) group of guanches welcomed the Spanish, who in their Western mindfuck religious narrow mentalscapes labelled them ‘savages’ because they were naked and did not believe in the god they had constantly fought for against the Muslims. The fact that ‘civilised’ Europeans who massacred whole communities of North American Indians (and called these bloody incursions into native territory ‘American wars’ or some such crap), or who enslaved whole nations in Peru (and called it the ‘spread of christianity’) have always been considered ‘civilised’, is one of the big hypocrisies of human history. Time will show how ignorant and backward post-megalithic Europe later became. Once placed outside this maelstrom of gross stupidity, one can better understand the incredible pre-christian civilisation of the Canaries, which have stood alone on the fringes of Western Civilisation. Visited by Phoenicians, Carthaginians and other Mediterranean empires of the time, the main bulk of the early population seems to conform to the Cromagnon type of Homo Sapiens, and are called the guanches. These were later on accompanied by further Mediterranean and Celtic populations, as already noted. As with all things ‘racial’, we shouldn’t be deluded and think we know the answer whenever a ‘nation’ is concerned. Even then, during the Prehistoric World, an ethnic group was already almost as mongrel as any ethnic group can be today. Only dumbwits attempt to see uniformity in social / human conglomerates. But what is true is that in some regions of the world, the early-human Cromagnon type remained more ‘untouched’ by later invasions, as is the case with the basques in modern France/Spain, the berbers of the Atlas Mountains or more remote areas of the Atlantic seaboard like Western France and Western Iberia (including Portugal), the pre-Celtic west of Ireland, the Scottish Highlands or the Welsh mountains, understandable when one thinks that mountains isolate MUCH more than islands themselves, which are much more appetizing and accessible. I have only recently become aware of this fact and it has been of tremendous importance in attempting to enter the ancient shepherd megalithic civilisations of the Basqueland. Even the Romans were never too interested.
To go back to the Canaries, there seem to be around a thousand necropolis all over the islands, but due to their constant, volcanic nature, perched on the outskirts of Western Africa as they are, most possible megalithic remains have been wiped out. It seems that, however, these consisted of caverns, which abound, one of which, the Grotte of Belmaco, in La Palma, still survives (perhaps, though the references are rather outdated). What is amazing is the spirals, waves and snake motives similar to those in Ireland, NW Spain or Gavrinis. To sum up, the early guanches are admitted to have lived in the islands from megalithic times (IIIrd millennium BCE, which is the date of the Petroglyphs of Belmaco). As I will note in another post, place names and other early terms (like Ur, Koeur and Hoeur, as is remarked in the Modern Antiquarian) betray a pre-Indoeuropean origin all over Europe, which later languages STILL kept ! Megalithic wisdom has lived on, in spite of Christianity, Rationalism and ignorant oil-drenched prats like Dubyarse.
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