Resumen de Biography of a Guanche infant mummy from El Sauzal
Dolores Delgado Miranda, Anna-Maria Begerock, Mercedes González Fernández
The inventory of bio-anthropological materials in a museum requires descriptive and photographic data, that describe the burial site and provides further information that later helps to contextualize the object or specimen inventoried, as well as facilitates the interpretation of studies carried out.When in 1992, then the Museum of Archeology, the current Museum of Nature and Archeology (MUNA onwards) received the donation of a Guanche child mummy from Antonio Romero Pérez, the information provided was scarce, as shown by the inventory card from the MUNA.The mummy entered the collection without the recording of any data providing clues about the burial context or location where it was found.
This study aims to fill gaps in the file of a child mummy from the funeral cave named El Sauzal, and to further enrich our knowledge about the Guanche burial behaviour; especially focussing on the treatment of an infant burial.
