Cooking ceramic among the murileguli of High Imperial Period Purple Dye Workshop from Lobos (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands). Preliminary results

The location of a Purple Dye Workshop of Roman high imperial period in Lobos Island (Fuerteventura) has allowed to consolidate the presence of Roman people in the Canary Islands. This activity would occur at a stage in which there is already a population in some of them.The found ceramic material shows forms corresponding exclusively to lathe productions and belonging to Roman time period, without, for the time being, any discovery that can be attributed to the Canarian indigenous cultures.Due to the characterization of the space, as an industrial type, a purple dye workshop, the localization of kitchen and table ceramics comes as a surprise.We study here the forms of cooking, which show us how the people, who arrive to Lobos, murileguli and piscatores, have been supplied with a varied specialized household in domestic life, as a complementary strategy to the development of the economic enterprise

La leyenda del poblamiento de Canarias por africanos de lenguas cortadas: génesis, contextualización e inviabilidad arqueológica de un relato ideado en la segunda mitad del siglo XIV

La leyenda de las lenguas cortadas, presente en las obras de diversos cronistas, relatores y etnohistoriadores que escribieron sobre las Islas Canarias a partir del siglo XIV, se ha querido utilizar como un relato verídico para explicar el primer poblamiento humano de Canarias. Una nueva relectura e interpretación de las fuentes escritas y de los datos arqueológicos nos permite ofrecer una nueva visión de la referida leyenda, desechando su pretendido carácter empírico y reflejando que estamos ante un relato inventado que hunde sus raíces en la cosmovisión judeo-cristiana, imperante hasta bien entrado el siglo XIX.The legend of the cut tongues, present in the works of diverse tellers and ethnohistoricians that wrote about the Canary Islands from the 14th century on, has wanted to be used as a truthful story to explain the first human colonization of the islands. A new vision and interpretation of the written sources and of the archaeological data allow us to offer a new vision of the referred legend, discarding their sought empiric character and reflecting that we are in front of an invented story that sinks its roots in the Jewish and Christian cosmovision, which prevails until well entered the 19th century

IL-6 serum levels predict severity and response to tocilizumab in COVID-19: An observational study

Background: Patients with coronavirus disaese 2019 (COVID-19) can develop a cytokine release syndrome that eventually leads to acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). Because IL-6 is a relevant cytokine in acute respiratory distress syndrome, the blockade of its receptor with tocilizumab (TCZ) could reduce mortality and/or morbidity in severe COVID-19. Objective: We sought to determine whether baseline IL-6 serum levels can predict the need for IMV and the response to TCZ. Methods: A retrospective observational study was performed in hospitalized patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Clinical information and laboratory findings, including IL-6 levels, were collected approximately 3 and 9 days after admission to be matched with preadministration and postadministration of TCZ. Multivariable logistic and linear regressions and survival analysis were performed depending on outcomes: need for IMV, evolution of arterial oxygen tension/fraction of inspired oxygen ratio, or mortality. Results: One hundred forty-six patients were studied, predominantly males (66%); median age was 63 years. Forty-four patients (30%) required IMV, and 58 patients (40%) received treatment with TCZ. IL-6 levels greater than 30 pg/mL was the best predictor for IMV (odds ratio, 7.1; P < .001). Early administration of TCZ was associated with improvement in oxygenation (arterial oxygen tension/fraction of inspired oxygen ratio) in patients with high IL-6 (P = .048). Patients with high IL-6 not treated with TCZ showed high mortality (hazard ratio, 4.6; P = .003), as well as those with low IL-6 treated with TCZ (hazard ratio, 3.6; P = .016). No relevant serious adverse events were observed in TCZ-treated patients. Conclusions: Baseline IL-6 greater than 30 pg/mL predicts IMV requirement in patients with COVID-19 and contributes to establish an adequate indication for TCZ administrationThis study was funded by Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO) and Instituto de Salud Carlos III (grant nos. RD16/0011/0012 and PI18/ 0371 to I.G.A., grant no. PI19/00549 to A.A., and grant no. SAF2017-82886-R to F.S.-M.) and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. The study was also funded by ‘‘La Caixa Banking Foundation’’ (grant no. HR17-00016 to F.S.-M.) and ‘‘Fondos Supera COVID19’’ by Banco de Santander and CRUE. None of these sponsors have had any role in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publicatio

Pottery and Fishing in the Canary Islands

El estudio de las ánforas de las islas de Tenerife, La Palma y El Hierro, y de otras cerámicas, nos permite relacionarlas con la actividad pesquera del llamado "Círculo del Estrecho". Su análisis tecnológico y tipológico nos conduce a afirmar que son imitaciones de tipos anfóricos de esa zona, y a defender, contra lo establecido, que los aborígenes canarios en un momento de su devenir en las islas, conocieron y se relacionaron estrechamente (cuando no lo hicieron ellos mismos), con pescadores que practicaron la pesca de altura.The study of the amphores from the islands of Tenerife, La Palma and El Hierro and other pottery permit us to relate them to fishing activity of the so-called "Strait Circle". Their technological and typological analyses lead us to affirm that they are copies of amphoric types of that area, and to defend, against the stated opinion, the theory that the Canarian aboriginals knew and were closely related to fishermen of that zone

Cerámica y pesca en Canarias

El estudio de las ánforas de las islas de Tenerife, La Palma y El Hierro, y de otras cerámicas, nos permite relacionarlas con la actividad pesquera del llamado "Círculo del Estrecho". Su análisis tecnológico y tipológico nos conduce a afirmar que son imitaciones de tipos anfóricos de esa zona, y a defender, contra lo establecido, que los aborígenes canarios en un momento de su devenir con las islas, conocieron y se relacionaron estrechamente (cuando no lo hicieron ellos mismos), con pescadores que practicaron la pesca de altura

El primitivo poblamiento humano de Canarias en la obra de Dominik Josef Wölfed: la prehistoria insular como "cultura marginal o de frontera"

El análisis del primitivo poblamiento humano de Canarias a partir de las Fuentes etnohistóricas, de la Historiografía y de la Arqueología, nos ha llevado a estudiar, entre otros autores vinculados con este tema, a Dominik Josef Wölfel, una figura cuya contribución a la referida parcela de la investigación arqueológica canaria había pasado desapercibida hasta la fecha, al prestársele básicamente atención a su legado filológico como berberólogo. Conscientes de este vacío, en el presente artículo pretendemos sacar a relucir cuál fue su aportación al estudio de la primitiva colonización insular.The study of the primitive human colonization of the Canary Islands starting from the ethno-historiographical sources, from Historiography and from Archaeology, has led us to study Dominik Josef Wölfel’s works, among other author’s. His contribution to this parcel of the Canarian archaeological investigation has never been studied before, being basically analyzed his philological contribution as a berberist. Aware of this problem, we investigate in this article which was his contribution to the study of the during primitive times insular colonization