The Guanche Residents’ Association building contains an archaeological site from the pre-Hispanic age – which archaeologists call “Cerera” for emblematic Calle Cerera, which is in the vicinity -. This ancestral site, from before the arrival of the European conquerors, consists of a Canary Island home built out of dry stone (without mortar) and a cave used as a dwelling.
This archaeological site is on the southern face of Arucas Mountain, in a place that used to be called the “Tabaibal", very near to an ancient trail known as the “camino real”.

In general lines, several factors lie behind the importance of this archaeological site:

In the first place, it is the result of the first excavation using recent scientific methods in Arucas. Secondly, it is the first site of its kind inside a building in the entire Canary Island archipelago.

The site is of scientific and archaeological importance because of:

A. The discovery of large quantities of varied prehistoric material: a painted ceramic vase in the form of a truncated cone (complete), a circular millstone, barley seeds (a large number), other seeds (wheat, etc.), the remains hogs, goats etc., fragments of tile (many of them painted, others decorated with cuts, etc.), stone tools and utensils (especially slices of basalt, obsidian and, to a lesser extent, silica and quartz remains), fragments of naviform mortars and circular mills, the remains of cut glass (in this respect, the native dwellers may have made use of glass brought from Europe, adapting it to their own instruments), the remains of fish, such as parrotfish...
These materials were classified and inventoried in the Archaeology Laboratory of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and are now deposited at the Canary Island museum for further study.

B. The probable presence of a chrono-stratigraphic sequence, of the few found on Gran Canaria, where it would be possible to observe the technological evolution of materials and settlements, particularly from how the stone is carved and from the decorations on the ceramic pieces, not previously found in the island’s prehistory.
The brief story of how this site was discovered goes back to 1993, when the first archaeological remains were found when work started on the building.
The establishment of this small site museum has not only ensured the integration of the archaeological findings but also created a cultural venue for leisure, thought and meeting purposes within the neighbourhood and, indeed, the town itself.