April
23
/ 2014
Research carried out in a cave located on the Canary Islands in Spain, in what was probably the indigenous region of Artevigua, suggests that the ancient islanders had an advanced understanding of cosmology. Besides marking the equinoxes and solstices, the light that beams inside the cave also recreates images related to fertility. Artevigua was an important settlement of the earliest Canarians, whose place names disappeared in the 18th century, possibly due to the eagerness of the Catholic Church to Hispanicize place names used by previous inhabitants. The cave is one of many Aboriginal caves in the region which were inhabited by ancient people and reused later by the current inhabitants of the island until the 1940s. Fertility symbols “The cave
