demographic, economic, technological and social changes have played an important role in optimizing natural resources in an island La Palma. The alteration of the landscape is directly related to the use of resources Subsistence use of wood and grass as a reflection of their political ability to implement or maintain a decision on a territory. However, the landscape can not be reduced solely to an economic dimension. They established
final and binding agreements about grazing rights, livestock, trade in goods and marriage. The management of grazing lands was vital for the survival of the community, referring to the entire island. The first awara who arrived in La Palma found a true haven for their cattle. Pastures are abundant over a large territory, allowing flexibility of uses of different plants at different periods story year.
We can not continue to advance the knowledge of the prehistoric peoples of the Canary Islands if you do not look at imazighen cultures that still survive in North Africa. In this sense, it helps the email that we sent Emiliano Hernández Oliva with a documentary on the ancient system of agdal that mesioua Yagur created to manage the pasture-land for livestock belonging to the Berber villages of the High Atlas, Morocco . The agdal is a Berber origin system is the regulation of access to a natural resource, being used by almost all the Berber tribes of the High Atlas and Southern Morocco. This resource can be a forest, fodder for goats and sheep, or even a farm land. The agdal is governed by specific dates for opening and closing of an area during a particular time of year. This contributes significantly to the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity, and on the other hand, social cohesion in the management of natural resources for subsistence of the people, thereby enhancing the living and sense of group among the tribes, families or villages. It is a principle of equality that is measured equally by all.
Its base is a strong rationale for material and economic production, but with a strong religious influence, where the sense of the sacred building meaning that orders the territory of various fractions spread over the valleys of the Atlas Mountains. Most of the different tribal communities still pray to a saint or holy man who is the unifying concerning human group, which, after opening agdal through celebrations and rituals, offer animals, vegetables, grain and butter, predicting and prosperity and fertility of the community (http://www.antropologiavisual.net/2007/agdal-voces-del-atlas/). The awara were some eternal trasterminantes-term refers to short trips from coast to summit. In summer, when the sun has burned the grass of the coastal and midlands, moving to the communal land summit demarcated around the outer edge near the Caldera, above 1,800 m altitude, where camps have begun to proliferate, and the inner walls of the large crater Taburiente.
Surely, like Atlas imazighen peoples, access to the commons for the summit was governed by a board comprising the entire island for about 3 or 4 months, in spring, these areas were closed to grazing to be the most sensitive period of growth and reproduction of plants. Not grazed the peaks until the seeds mature, especially those of grasses and other short-cycle plants. Clearly, the closure is not physical barriers but by moral and traditional rights. This does not mean that there are other areas of permanent pasture on the island-shores, midlands, Cumbre Nueva and Cumbre Vieja. Is a system used to allow the reproduction of plants the following year. The entry of animals during the closure was punished by customary law. From March
subtly begins flowering summits, wallflowers first, then violet, are the first to show their charms lilies, until the yellow monochrome landscape begins. Its maximum maturity occurs in June / July. Would the arrival of the summer solstice or lunasticio the moment that marks the opening of the communal grazing summit? We do not know magical-religious world reinforces the grazing system. They are the gods who rule in these sacred lands. The standard ritual of summer between Atlas mesioua animal sacrifice was to reconcile the telluric forces, demons, and thus to promote the fertility of the animals themselves, men, vegetation, rain, etc.. Everything goes together. It's all a show of wisdom.
The sense of community is deeply rooted in these ancient peoples. In summer, the highest peaks of La Palma became a hotbed for human and animal racking, time took advantage to strengthen social relationships. From XVI century, started a new era. While pastors are in breach of the standard historical ancestral individualism is imposed on the community, demystify grasslands and become subject to economic exploitation. Now they are the gods of the land owners are men. That individuality leads to disregard certain rules and raise the animals before the seeds mature, resulting in the loss of the new generation of plants and the disappearance of fragile species and the spread of the toughest - laburnum. Pastures are overexploited and lose quality. Definitely, the humans took over the territory's most sacred island in the decade 1980, banned grazing in the mountains to make way for impressive buildings of IAC (Canary Island Astrophysics Institute), with National Parks in charge of recovering some of the flora is in danger of extinction.
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