Everything is subjective, and I’m not so certain. Secondly, this wave of migration tested, is pretty recent in terms of Spain. At that point in time, peoples from that area had already crossed over to ‘America’, as some theories believe.
Interesting that these variations in coloring were present so long ago in what is now Spain-I always assumed all that happened after the Romans came to Iberia with their soldiers and slaves from all over the empire and stirred the melting pot more.
My ancestors who came to the new world were mostly Basques from the Pyrenees area of Spain-of course many of them mated with native Americans along the way from what is now Mexico to what is now Texas in the 17th-18th centuries.
Even so, most of us are still light-to-medium olive in color-some of us are darker, but not many. Green and blue eyes, red hair and even dark blonde hair are not uncommon no matter how olive skinned we are. That also supports the theory that some native Americans were descendants of those who had come to the “new world” from that area of Europe far back in antiquity. The distribution of various native American language groups from Canada to S. America certainly supports that theory, as well.
Yup.