ISBN:
9781461542315
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 252 p)
,
ill., map
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Social sciences
;
Human genetics
;
Anthropological linguistics
;
Anthropology
;
Archaeology
Abstract:
This book contains most of the conclusion reached by the geneticists, anthropologists, and linguists at the meeting `Prehistoric Iberia'. This is the first time that a particular historical topic has been approached from a multidisciplinary point of view in a single meeting. The novel conclusions reached include the following: There is no evidence of the demic diffusion model of people substitution in Iberia during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. New technologies were probably reached by circum-Mediterranean navigation. Present day Iberians are genetically very similar to North African populations and also to other more distant Eastern Mediterraneans, including Turks. Arab invasions in North Africa and Spain in 711 AD did not result in a massive gene flow. North African Berbers and Spaniards have maintained their old genetic identity; this invasion was mostly religious and cultural. Celts in Iberia are difficult to find. Basque and Berber languages are similar to many other extinct `Usko-Mediterranean' languages (Etruscan, Minoan). These `older languages' were later substituted by the Euro Asiatic languages (Latin, Greek, German). Finally, the Saharan area is considered as a radiation focus of peoples, (and languages) who were forced to emigrate from a fertile area where hyper-arid conditions began to develop after 7000 BC
Description / Table of Contents:
I Genetics1. Genetic and Historical Relationships Among Mediterraneans -- 2. Genetic Affinities Among Human Populations Inhabiting the Sub-Saharan Area, Northwest Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula -- 3. The History of Iberian and Moroccan Populations: Evidence from Genetic Data (DNA Studies and Classical Polymorphisms) -- 4. The Berbers of North Africa: Genetic Relationships According to HLA and other Polymorphisms -- II Anthropology -- 5. Berber Ethnogenesis: The Origin of the First Berber-Speaking Social Formations -- 6. Applications of Evolutive Archeology: Migrations from Africa to Iberia in the Recent Prehistory -- III Linguistics -- 7. Deciphering the Iberian-Tartesian Language -- 8. The Basque Language Is Included in the Dene-Caucasian Language Family -- 9. The Usko-Mediterranean Languages.
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4615-4231-5
