>Being at the Western fringe of Europe, Iberia had a peculiar prehistory and a complex pattern of Neolithization. A few studies, all based on modern populations, reported the presence of DNA of likely African origin in this region, generally concluding it was the result of recent gene flow, probably during the Islamic period. Here, we provide evidence of much older gene flow from Africa to Iberia by sequencing whole genomes from four human remains from northern Portugal and southern Spain dated around 4000 years BP (from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age). We found one of them to carry an unequivocal sub-Saharan mitogenome of most probably West or West-Central African origin, to our knowledge never reported before in prehistoric remains outside Africa. Our analyses of ancient nuclear genomes show small but significant levels of sub-Saharan African affinity in several ancient Iberian samples, which indicates that what we detected was not an occasional individual phenomenon, but an admixture event recognizable at the population level. We interpret this result as evidence of an early migration process from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula through a western route, possibly across the Strait of Gibraltar
There was a direct migration from West Africa, into pre historic Europe. Along Iberia. Which means most Meds have a Negroid base. Interesting imo. The darker Celts in England might be related here.
>The darker Celts in England might be related here. It's more complicated than that. Try to imagine hominin/human race sex wars as a wave, going back and forth, back and forth, from different directions. The darker Celts probably have a much cooler history than being bleached negros. Though that is possible, some crazy historians from the 19th~ century talked about black midgets in Europe as if it were matter of fact.
Also red hair seems to pop up in mulatto races which is interesting.
Hey man I didn't write it. This is echoed among many older scholars. Were they making it up or is there a reason the Irish like to dance and were called niggers for centuries?
>The Haratin are primarily of Sub-Saharan African heritage and speak Maghrebi Arabic dialects as well as various Berber languages.[1]
>They have been called a socially distinct class of workers,[1][4] or a caste that emerged from a legacy of slavery in Africa under the Arabs, the Berbers, and the Moors.[2][5][
>The origins of the Haratin are in various Sub-Saharan African ethnic groups of Sahel in West Africa, such as Bambara, Soninke, and others. They were raided or captured during wartime and brought to the Arab world of North Africa as slaves.[2][4] Earliest known enslaved predecessors of the Haratin worked on arable lands, particularly around the oases across the Sahara. They gradually adopted the language and culture of their slavedrivers, Arabs and Berbers of the region. In countries such as Morocco, they are sometimes classified either as Berber or Arab, depending on their language and society they are found in.[4] In Mauritania, however, where there are nearly 1.5 million Haratin, they have developed a separate sense of ethnic identity.[4]
