Prehistoric Iberia

This work contains most of the conclusions reached by the geneticists, anthropologists, and linguists at the meeting `Prehistoric Iberia'. 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; and 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.