Isolation and Evolution in Oceanic Islands: the human colonisation of the Canary Islands

Project Information

IsoCAN

Grant agreement ID: 851733

DOI

10.3030/851733

Project closed

EC signature date 4 October 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 414 496,00

EU contribution

€ 1 414 496,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
Spain

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Animal Consumption at Hospital de San Martín (Gran Canaria): First Zooarchaeological Analysis in the Modern Era of the Canary Islands (Fifteenth-Eighteenth Centuries CE)

Author(s): Aitor Brito-Mayor, Jonathan Santana, Marta Moreno-García, Amelia Rodríguez-Rodríguez
Published in: International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Issue Volume 27, 2023, Page(s) 1210–1242, ISSN 1573-7748
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10761-023-00708-4

Differences in Dental Size Among the Indigenous Population of the Canary Islands

Author(s): Rebeca García‐González, Aarón Morquecho Izquier, Jonathan Santana
Published in: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Issue 35, 2025, ISSN 1047-482X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/oa.3385

Living on sand. A functional and PDSM analysis of obsidian and other volcanic rock tools from two coastal settlements: Playa Chica and Dunas de Maspalomas (Gran Canaria, Spain)

Author(s): Idaira Brito-Abrante, Laurence Astruc, Jonathan Santana, Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodríguez-Rodríguez
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-025-02245-z

An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Cultivation in the Canary Islands

Author(s): Jenny Hagenblad, Jacob Morales
Published in: African Archaeological Review, Issue 37/4, 2020, Page(s) 579-595, ISSN 0263-0338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1007/s10437-020-09415-5

Food Globalization in the Early Modern Period: Isotopic Evidence of Maize Introduction and Dietary Diversification on Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain (16th–18th <scp>CE</scp>)

Author(s): Jonathan Santana, Elías Sánchez Cañadillas, Jacob Morales, Aarón Morquecho Izquier, Aitor Brito Mayor, Eneko Iriarte, Rebeca García González, Jared Jiménez Mederos, María del Carmen Cruz de Mercadal, Marta Moreno‐García, Amelia Rodríguez Rodríguez
Published in: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Issue 186, 2025, ISSN 2692-7691
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70027

The chronology of the human colonization of the Canary Islands

Author(s): Jonathan Santana, Miguel Del Pino, Jacob Morales, Rosa Fregel, Jenny Hagenblad, Aarón Morquecho, Aitor Brito-Mayor, Pedro Henríquez, Jared Jiménez, Javier G Serrano, Elías Sánchez-Cañadillas, Alejandra C Ordóñez, Simon-Pierre Gilson
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, Issue 121 (28) e2302924121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2302924121

Agriculture and crop dispersal in the western periphery of the Old World: the Amazigh/Berber settling of the Canary Islands (ca. 2nd–15th centuries CE)

Author(s): Jacob Morales, Claudia Speciale, Amelia Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Pedro Henríquez-Valido, Efrain Marrero-Salas, Juan Carlos Hernández-Marrero, Rosa López, Teresa Delgado-Darias, Jenny Hagenblad, Rosa Fregel, Jonathan Santana
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 22 June 2023, 2023, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-023-00920-6

The genomic history of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands

Author(s): Javier G. Serrano, Alejandra C. Ordóñez, Jonathan Santana, Elías Sánchez-Cañadillas, Matilde Arnay, Amelia Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Jacob Morales, Javier Velasco-Vázquez, Verónica Alberto-Barroso, Teresa Delgado-Darias, M. Carmen Cruz de Mercadal, Juan Carlos Hernández, Marco A. Moreno-Benítez, Jorge Pais, Harald Ringbauer, Martin Sikora, Hugh McColl, Maria Pino-Yanes, Mariano Hernández Fe
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40198-w

High-mountain plant use and management: macro-botanical data from the pre-Hispanic sites of Chasogo and Cruz de Tea, 13–17th centuries AD, Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain)

Author(s): Jacob Morales, Paloma Vidal-Matutano, Efraim Marrero-Salas, Pedro Henríquez-Valido, Alberto Lacave-Hernández, Juan Carlos García-Ávila, Ithaisa Abreu-Hernandez, Matilde Arnay-de-la-Rosa
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 35, 2021, Page(s) 102730, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102730

Interpreting oral conditions of the past: biocultural factors affecting Gran Canaria’s population between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries (Canary Islands, Spain)

Author(s): Aarón Morquecho Izquier, Jonathan Santana, Rebeca García González
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue Volume 15, article number 197, 2023, ISSN 1866-9565
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01893-3

Taphonomy into the beach: Experimental approach to bone modifications made by insects on an island (Gran Canaria, Canary Island, Spain).

Author(s): Pedro Henríquez-Valido, Aitor Brito-Mayor
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 1866-9565
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3648436/v1

Un lugar entre las dunas. Aprovechamiento oportunista de un espacio costero durante la etapa preeuropea de la isla de Gran Canaria (circa siglos VIII-XI AD)

Author(s): Amelia del Carmen Rodríguez Rodríguez; Jonathan Santana Cabrera; Pablo Alonso; Miguel del Pino Curbelo; Isabel Francisco Ortega; Diana Gómez de la Rúa; María del Carmen González Ruiz; Pedro Henr
Published in: Trabajos de Prehistoria, Issue Vol. 78 Núm. 2 (2021), 2021, ISSN 1988-3218
Publisher: Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas
DOI: 10.3989/tp.2021.12279

Climate, biogeography, and human resilience in the demographic history of the Canary Islands during the Amazigh period

Author(s): Jonathan Santana, Miguel del Pino Curbelo, Eneko Iriarte, Jacob Morales, José L. Caro, Rosa Fregel, Jenny Hagenblad, Rebeca García González, Amelia Rodríguez Rodríguez
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-04302-y

Ancient DNA from lentils (Lens culinaris) illuminates human - plant - culture interactions in the Canary Islands

Author(s): Jenny Hagenblad, Jacob Morales, Rosa Fregel, Pedro Henríquez-Valido, Matti W. Leino, Amelia C. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Jonathan Santana
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 183, 2026, Page(s) 106360, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106360

Analysis of oral conditions to explore subsistence strategies in the ecologically diverse environments of the Canary Islands during the Amazigh period (1st to 15th centuries CE)

Author(s): Aarón Morquecho Izquier, Rebeca García González, Elías Sánchez Cañadillas, Jonathan Santana
Published in: Archives of Oral Biology, Issue 174, 2025, Page(s) 106236, ISSN 0003-9969
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2025.106236

Stress, Life History, and Linear Enamel Hypoplasia: Insights From the Indigenous Populations of the Canary Islands

Author(s): Aarón Morquecho Izquier, Rebeca García‐González, Jonathan Santana
Published in: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Issue 188, 2025, ISSN 2692-7691
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70116

Decomposing in the dark. Experimental approaches to funerary archaeoentomology in volcanic caves

Author(s): Pedro Henríquez-Valido, Aitor Brito-Mayor, Amelia Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Jacob Morales, Jonathan Santana, Idaira Brito-Abrante, Jean-Bernard Huchet
Published in: Forensic Science International: Synergy, Issue 12, 2026, Page(s) 100653, ISSN 2589-871X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsisyn.2025.100653

The early lives of the islanders: Stable isotope analysis of incremental dentine collagen from the prehispanic period of the Canary Islands

Author(s): Elías Sánchez-Cañadillas, Julia Beaumont, Jonathan Santana-Cabrera, Marise Gorton, Matilde Arnay-de-la-Rosa
Published in: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Issue 02 August 2023, 2023, ISSN 2692-7691
Publisher: American Association of Biological Anthropologists
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24828

Utilising ancient DNA to understand crop population dynamics across a millennium: A case study of archaeological barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) from Gran Canaria, Spain

Author(s): Jenny Hagenblad, Jacob Morales, Matti W. Leino, Robin Abbey-Lee, Amelia C. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Jonathan Santana
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue Volume 167, July 2024, 106001, 2024, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106001

Femoral Cross‐Sectional Geometry in the Amazigh Population of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain): Insights Into Mobility Patterns on an Island Landscape

Author(s): Jared Jiménez, Laura Rodríguez‐García, Rebeca García‐González, Mario Encinoso‐Quintana, Javier G. Serrano, Sara B. Armas‐Quintana, Rosa Fregel, Aaron Morquecho‐Izquier, Jonathan Santana
Published in: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Issue 188, 2025, ISSN 2692-7691
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70172