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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).
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).
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