Editing Guanches (section)

== Clothes and weapons ==
Guanches wore [[garment]]s made from [[goat]] skins or woven from plant fibers called Tamarcos, which have been found in the tombs of Tenerife. They had a taste for ornaments and necklaces of wood, bone and shells, worked in different designs. Beads of baked earth, cylindrical and of all shapes, with smooth or polished surfaces, mostly colored black and red, were fairly common. Dr. René Verneau suggested that the objects the Castilians referred to as ''pintaderas'', baked clay seal-shaped objects, were used as vessels for painting the body in various colours. They manufactured rough [[pottery]], mostly without decorations, or ornamented by making fingernail indentations.

Guanche weapons adapted to the insular environment (using wood, bone, [[obsidian]] and stone as primary materials), with later influences from medieval European weaponry. Basic armaments in several of the islands included [[Javelin (weapon)|javelin]]s of 1 to 2 m in length (known as ''Banot'' on Tenerife); round, polished stones; spears; maces (common in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, and known as ''Magado'' and ''Sunta'', respectively); and shields (small in Tenerife and human-sized in Gran Canaria, where they were known as ''Tarja'', made of [[Dracaena draco|Drago wood]] <!-- Should be the correct link. See http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_draco --> and painted with geometric shapes). After the arrival of the Europeans, Guanche nobility from Gran Canaria were known to wield large wooden swords (larger than the European two-handed type) called ''Magido'', which were said to be very effective against both infantrymen and cavalry. Weaponry made of wood was hardened with fire. These armaments were commonly complemented with an obsidian knife known as ''Tabona''.

[[File:Pueblo Chico Guanchen2.jpg|250px|thumb|Reconstruction of a Guanche settlement of Tenerife]]
Dwellings were situated in natural or artificial caves in the mountains. In areas where cave dwellings were not feasible, they built small round houses and, according to the Castilians, practiced crude fortification.

[[File:Pueblo Chico Guanchen1.JPG|250px|thumb|The Guanches on Tenerife]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+Presumed Guanche names of the Canary Islands
!Spanish
!Guanche
|-
|rowspan=3|Tenerife
|[[Achinet|Achinech]]
|-
|Achineche
|-
|Asensen
|-
|rowspan=2|La Gomera
|Gomera
|-
|Gomahara
|-
|La Palma
|Benahoare
|-
|rowspan=2|El Hierro
|Eseró
|-
|Heró
|-
|Gran Canaria
|Tamaran
|-
|rowspan=2|Lanzarote
|Titerogakaet
|-
|Titeroigatra
|-
|rowspan=3|Fuerteventura
|Maxorata
|-
|Erbania
|-
|Erbani
|}