A stage in the Mogador-Canary islands route. Roman pottery in Lanzarote and its relationship with underwater finds

Abstract

The recent discovery of wheel-made pottery in a terrestrial location of Lanzarote, with dates between 30-50 A.D. to 420 A.D., have been attributed to roman amphorae with origin of the Baetica, Campania and Tunisia. Simultaneously, they think that all the underwater amphorae from the Canary Islands have a chronology between the 16th and 17th centuries A.D. The aim of this paper is an careful stratigraphical analysis of the archaeological site El Bebedero (Lanza- rote), offer a discusion about the arguments that support the reject the roman origin for the underwater amphorae and emphasize the relationship between Mogador and the Canary Islands.