Prehistoric Iberia: Genetics, Anthropology, and Linguistics

This book contains most of the conclusion reached by the geneticists, anthropologists, and linguists at the meeting `Prehistoric Iberia'. Th is is the first time that a particular historical topic has been appro ached 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 t he Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. New technologies were probably rea ched by circum-Mediterranean navigation. Present day Iberians are gene tically very similar to North African populations and also to other mo re 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 geneti c identity; this invasion was mostly religious and cultural. Celts in Iberia are difficult to find.