Prehistoric Iberia: Genetics, Anthropology, and Linguistics : [proceedings of an International Conference on Prehistoric Iberia : Genetics, Anthropology, and Linguistics, Held November 16-17, 1998, in Madrid, Spain]Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, Jorge Martínez-Laso, Eduardo Gómez-Casado The symposium "Prehistoric Iberia: genetics, anthropology and linguistics" was held in the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid on 16th -17th November 1998. The idea was bringing together specialists who could address not clearly resolved historic and prehistoric issues regarding ancient Iberian and Mediterranean populations, following a multidisciplinary approach. This was necessary in the light of the new bulk of genetic, archeological and linguistic data obtained with the new DNA technology and the recent discoverings in the other fields. Genes may now be easily studied in populations, particularly HLA genes and markers of the mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome. Basques, Iberians, North Africans, Berbers (Imazighen) and Mediterraneans have presently been widely studied. The genetic emerging picture is that Mediterraneans are closely related from West (Basque, Iberians, Berbers) to East (Jews, Lebanese, Cretans); however, Greeks are outliers in all the analyses done by using HLA genes. Anthropologists and archeologists showed how there was no people substitution during the revolutionary Mesolithic-Neolithic transition; in addition, cultural relationships were found between Iberia and predinastic Egypt (EI Badari culture). Basque language translation into Spanish has been the key for relating most Mediterranean extinct languages. The Usko-Mediterranean languages were once spoken in a wide African and European area, which also included parts of Asia. This was the "old language" that was slowly substituted by Eurasian languages starting approximately after the Bronze Age (or 2,000 years BC). |
Contents
Genetic and Historical Relationships Among Mediterraneans | 3 |
Genetic Affinities Among Human Populations Inhabiting | 33 |
Evidence from | 51 |
Genetic Relationships According | 65 |
The Origin of the First BerberSpeaking | 81 |
Migrations from Africa | 125 |
Deciphering the IberianTartesian Language | 165 |
The Basque Language Is Included in the DeneCaucasian Language | 197 |
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Algerians allele frequencies alphabet analysis ancient Arab archeological Arnaiz-Villena and Alonso-García Badarian Basque language Behrens Berber language BERBER PUNIC CARTHAGINIA Berber-speaking Camps Capsian Chaker Continued ENGLISH Cretans cultural Dene-Caucasian differentiation DRB1 eastern EBLAIC ELAMITE EGYPTIAN Egypt El Jadida English Translation Escacena ETRUSCAN ETRUSCAN MINOAN BERBER European gene flow genetic distances geographic Greeks haplogroups haplotype historical HITTITE HITTITE SUMERIAN EBLAIC Hum Genet human groups Iberian Peninsula Iberian-Tartesian Iberomaurusian Imanishi Indo-European inscriptions Jews Late Atlantic Neolithic Lebanese Libyan linguistic Literal English loci Madrid Maghreb Marismilla markers Martínez-Laso Mediterranean millennium BC MINOAN MINOAN BERBER PUNIC Moroccan Morocco Mozabites mtDNA Muzzolini Neolithic Neolithic period North Africa origin Phoenicians Phonetic Transcription polymorphisms populations Portuguese possible pottery Prehistoric Prehistoric Iberia PUNIC CARTHAGINIA HITTITE quarries region Ruhlen Sahara samples Sardinians Sellier Semitic similar southern Spain Spaniards SPANISH BASQUE studied sub-Saharan SUMERIAN SUMERIAN EBLAIC ELAMITE Table texts Tuaregs Usko-Mediterranean words