The Casa Condal de San Fernando hosted the presentation of the latest publication by the Professor of Economic History at the University of La Laguna, Mr. Antonio Manuel Macías Hernández: “THE CANARY ABORIGINES. Three Millennia of History”, edited by the author himself.
During his speech, Mr. Macías recalled part of his childhood spent in Tunte, remembering how his parents, through the books they gave him to read and the excursions they took around the Caldera de Tirajana, instilled in him a love of history, of learning about the experiences of the first island settlers and their ways of adapting to the environment that surrounded them.
In this recent publication, the Professor from the ULL, organizes the material given by the historical sources from an analytical point of view, resolving numerous gaps following logical and statistical thinking.
Through its pages, the theory is defended about the Neolithic people, inhabitants of the Sahara, who reached our islands and colonized them; the contacts that the navigators of antiquity had with the Canary Islands for navigational reasons and to extract materials necessary to continue their route to their destination; and the isolation of this colonizing people with respect to the outside world, until well into the 15th century, when they were invaded by the desire for enrichment of the Crown of Castile.
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This book sets out the hypothesis that the author himself has been defending since 1995 and aims to demolish stereotypes of our history, such as: what were the first territorial spaces occupied by these colonizing peoples on our island, the date of the first arrivals to the Canary Islands, that they were Neolithic peoples so we should talk about protohistory and not prehistory and finally their origin, which the Professor argues that they come from the Sahara because the people of that area, forced by the desertification they suffered, were forced to emigrate in search of a better horizon, which is why they came to our islands.
In this presentation, the author highlighted the deep feeling of affection he has for Tunte, since he spent the first ten years of his childhood among its streets, and it was during this period that he discovered the passion that would accompany him throughout his professional life: the study of History.
Antonio Macías Hernández has contributed to historical research with numerous publications, all of them focused on the study of the agrarian and, therefore, economic history of the Canary Islands. He has published more than 46 articles, has participated in 19 book chapters, has given more than 10 speeches at different conferences and has written 5 books.
