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The main settlement area Aboriginal correspond to the central area of the island, known as "El Jable". Stresses the site of Zonzamas , one of the largest Indian villages of Canaries , residence of the last "king" of Lanzarote, and continued to be inhabited long after the conquest complete. Other prominent archaeological sites are calling The Great Village (now Teguise ), Ajey (now St. Bartholomew ) or Lomo de San Andrés.
As the world of beliefs , it seems that this is a people monotheistic , as is clear from some chronic. In the rest of the islands is also widespread worship one or two major gods, usually associated to the sun and / or moon . Besides these, there are lots of places made sacred and symptoms of a cult elements of nature, such as mountains and aquifers.The chronicles refer to cults majos to ask rains, made sense given the climate semi-desert island. Striking finding lytic type figurines anthropomorphic and zoomorphic rituals associated with, interpreted as idols . Notable among them called Zonzamas Idol , keeping certain stylistic similarities with sculptures Phoenician and Punic . The efequenes , meanwhile, were in a circular temples where rituals and offerings were made. Have also been linked to certain rites called "cheese", sets of artificial grooves on tuff that might have served for the outpouring of milk and other products. The nice people honored their dead, who were buried in caves or trenches, through composed funerary pottery , stone tools, shells and ornaments.
The material culture is rich in pottery made without lathe knives obsidian , stone mortars and bakeries and objects made of bones, and personal ornaments with stones, bone material and malaco logical .
Economy: subsistence on the island
The economic base of the old society was represented by Lanzarote activities agricultural and livestock , supplemented by the collection of wild plant species, the
