Jornadas en el MUNA

Jornadas en el MUNA. These jornadas aim to explore and analyze the various forms of violence in the ancient world, paying particular attention to the Indigenous societies of the Canary Islands before and during the European conquest. Through a multidisciplinary approach, aspects related to violence, power and territory in the Indigenous world will be addressed.

Dates: May 19 and May 21, 2026. From 17:30–20:00. Limited capacity – Free admission.

Day May 19, 2026

• 17:30–20:00 Opening of the Jornadas
• Aggression, identity and contexts of dispute: social readings of violence in the first history of the Canary Islands, Javier Velasco Vázquez (technical officer of the Servicio de Patrimonio Histórico of Cabildo de Gran Canaria)
• Times and settings of physical violence in Indigenous populations of the Canary Islands: convergences and divergences, Teresa de Jesús Delgado Darias (conservator of El Museo Canario)
• The other faces of violence in the Indigenous population of the Canary Islands, Verónica Alberto Barroso (archaeologist at Tibicena. Arqueología y Patrimonio)

Day May 21, 2026

• Physical violence: the osteological testimony, Conrado Rodríguez-Maffiotte Martín (director of the Canary Institute of Bioanthropology and of the Tenerife Archaeological Museum, Museums of Tenerife – Cabildo de Tenerife and corresponding academic of the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Canary Islands)
• Traces of violence: traumatic evidences in the Guanche population of Tenerife, Alberto Jesús Martín Rodríguez (conservator of the Canary Institute of Bioanthropology, Museos de Tenerife – Cabildo de Tenerife), María Candelaria Rosario Adrián (conservator of the Tenerife Archaeological Museum, Museos de Tenerife – Cabildo de Tenerife) and Sarah Delgado Luis (conservator of the Canary Institute of Bioanthropology, Museos de Tenerife – Cabildo de Tenerife)