Cart-ruts in Lanzarote (Canary Islands, Spain) volcanoes tops point to Equinoxes, Summer and Winter Solstices

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ID2640945
AuthorsAntonio Arnaiz‐villena (0000-0002-4268-7520, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, Marcial Medina (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Valentín Ruiz-Del-Valle (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Adrian López-Nares, Adrián López‐Nares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Julian Rodriguez-Rodriguez (0000-0001-9202-2589, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Fabio Suarez-Trujillo, Fabio Suárez‐Trujillo (0000-0002-2719-6774, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Year2020
Volume2
Issue13
Pages123-138
Publication date2020-07-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Modern Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1737-7374 • E-ISSN: 1737-8176
PublisherAfrican Journals Online (AJOL) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4314/ijma.v2i13.4
OpenAlexW3041024648
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited9

Cart-ruts have been observed in Mediterranean Basin, Eurasia and Africa. They are rock carved stripes and channels which unexpectedly converge and/or bend, not being useful for transportation use because constant parallelism is not kept. Cart-ruts came first to scholars attention in Malta and Gozo Islands where they are abundant and dated at Bronze or Temple Age of this Archipelago. A big conjoint European investment for Cart-ruts study only got a detailed inventory in several Eurasian and African countries. Age and use of Cart-ruts remains non-discovered: it is admitted that different ages and uses may not be the same for different or even same areas. Azores Archipelago Cart-ruts were left out of this study and we have recently described them at Lanzarote (Canary Islands, Spain) volcanoes tops and slopes and suggested that they could have been useful for space and time measurements. In the present study, Lanzarote is studied and Mt. Mina and Mt. Guardilama mountains Cart-ruts azimuths points to Summer and Winter Solstices sunrises respectively as measured from Quesera/'Cheeseboard' of Zonzamas, which is a prehistoric Guanche lunisolar calendar. Mt. Tenezara Cart-ruts azimuth is pointing towards Equinoxes sunrises, as observed from Zonzamas prehistoric calendar. Thus, a use for measure time and space could be a function for some Lanzarote Cart-ruts. We explain these findings in a prehistoric Guanche aborigine culture context probably common to Atlantic megalithic Bronze Age and to all Canary Islands having prehistoric inter-navigation, because all have similar rock Iberian-Guanche inscriptions and other common cultural traits. Sahara Desert abandoning by people also influenced Mediterranean and Atlantic culture. Probability that 3 out of 7 studied volcano Cart-ruts point to Solstices and Equinoxes by chance is close to zero as calculated by factorial probability methods. Keywords: Latin, Scripts, Canary Islands, Iberian, Guanche, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Quesera-Cheeseboard, Pyramids, Berber, Africa, Punic, Roman, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Canaria, Calendar, Etruscan, Basque, Cart-ruts, Usko-Mediterranean, Solstice, Equinox, Zonzamas, HLA, Genetics, Sahara. Atchano, Malta

Archaeology · Archipelago · Context (archaeology) · Geography · Latitude · Mediterranean climate · Physical geography · Prehistory · Solstice · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeological and Historical Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology

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