“Unlocking the Past: Drone Discovers Mysterious Tomb Housing Dozens of Ancient Skeletons and Mummies in the Canary Islands”
The Guanches were hunter-gatherers with a primitive knowledge of farming. They lived in caves and huts and embalmed and mummified members of the community with high social esteem similarly to the Egyptians.
TwitterThe Guanche people were hunter-gatherers with some knowledge of farming. They developed a language of whistles to communicate across the ravines and valleys of the Canary Islands.
While these respected members were carefully prepared and entombed in caves when they died, those in lower classes were simply buried in the ground. The site of the discovery is only one of 1,200 archaeological sites in Gran Canaria, but unique because of the newborn remains.
Though the “El Legado” team discovered this cave in June 2019, the group decided to delay its reported findings out of an abundance of caution, fearing that the site would be vandalized before they could do their job properly.
“The cave should be closed off and preserved with the bones left there to respect the site,” said Gonzalez. “We decided to report it because we want the local authorities to preserve and respect it.”
CEN/Cabildo de Gran CanariaThe team found numerous traditional burial shrouds made of vegetable fibers and animal skin.
Perhaps most interesting is the Guanche language of Silbo (or Sylbo) Gomero. This was developed long before the Spanish arrived and was used to communicate through whistles across the ravines and valleys of the island.
Around 22,000 people today use the language, which turns Castilian Spanish into whistles. This ancient method essentially uses “two whistled vowels and four consonants,” with the sound capable of traveling for up two miles.
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