The discovery of numerous pottery fragments made on a wheel in La Graciosa, dating back to between 1,100 and 900 BC, suggests that navigators may have arrived in the Canary Islands at the end of the Bronze Age.

The location of these archaeological remains, dated to such early periods, "lacks precedents not only in Canarian archaeology but also along the entire African Atlantic coast," and opens "new perspectives on the antiquity of knowledge of the islands."

In addition to the ceramic fragments, numerous "Thais hematoma" shells were found, strongly fragmented, indicating intentional crushing by humans, possibly to extract the precious "purpura." Other finds included shells from a large mussel (Perna perna) and animal bones, likely from a goat tibia and an undetermined seabird. The researchers are convinced that this pottery could be linked to people associated with the Near East, specifically the Phoenicians.