Libyco-Berber engravings

The presence of several sets of Libyco-Berber type alphabetic engravings in the Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape provides further exceptional examples that should be added to this area’s characteristics. The meaning of these representations goes beyond the mere presence of singular rock art inscriptions given that, along with the language, they form the cultural background of Northern African societies, representing this site’s outstanding ties with the Amazigh culture that is still present in the oral memory.
These are fundamentally panels that represent lines of still-undeciphered writing, made by puncturing and rubbing, scratching and incision techniques, seen at sites such as Roque Bentayga, Cuevas del Rey, El Toscón and Visvique.