hing and shell fishing , and catch small animals from the island. Agriculture was very precarious, type cereal , based on the cultivation of barley with rudimentary methods. This was used to prepare the gofio . Livestock would be the main source of funds for majos given goats adaptation to environmental conditions of the island. The goat , the sheep and pigs are the main domestic species present in aboriginal times, that was extracted from meat, milk, cheese (curd) and butter. Feeding the majos was completed with a high consumption of shellfish ( limpets and winkles , mainly), with fish caught in a rudimentary way, hunting birds ( shearwaters ,Houbara ) and collecting reptiles and plant products such as dates .
Organization sociopolitical
Socially, the core of maja organization was the extended family, or lineage , around which were articulated productive and reproductive activities. Many authors have advocated the affiliation matrilineal (where the relationship is established with the mother's family) as establishing lineages system Lanzarote, as seems to happen between the canaries of Gran Canaria and tribes Berber North Africa before the Islamization . In the immediate aftermath of the Conquest , maja society have begun to shift from a model tribal , hierarchical and based sparsely kinship, towards a model of leadership , which appears in Figure hierarchical "boss" with redistributive functions and power over the entire island area. Other social practices would majas the polyandry , in which each woman would have three husbands, as it chronicles Canarien Le , who would take turns with the moons, remaining one at home, husband acting as principal, while others were engaged in productive activities outside the home, and the "hospitality of bed", attested in the legend of Princess Ico , would mean the temporary marital rights for other men, as a sign of entertainment to guests, which also existed among the Inuit
