A Berber woman (photo 1905)
Posted on 03/25/2019 6:15:57 AM PDT by blam
The islands’ pioneers likely arrived centuries before European conquest, as part of a large-scale movement of people from North Africa.
Today the Canary Islands are a tourist hub, a volcanic archipelago with palm trees and azure beaches, located off the coast of Morocco and governed by Spain. But the history of this paradise is marred by the brutal conquest, enslavement and treatment of its indigenous people by European colonizers beginning around the 15th century.
Although scientists know a fair bit about the fate of the islands’ original inhabitants, much is unknown about their origins. Some scholars have debated whether the indigenous people sailed to the islands themselves more than a thousand years ago or were stranded there by ancient Mediterranean mariners.
Increasingly, the evidence points to an intentional journey. Ancient DNA from skeletal remains found across the islands now suggests that the islands’ earliest pioneers were North Africans who may have arrived around 100 C.E. or earlier, and settled on every island by at least 1000 C.E. The finding supports previous archaeological, anthropological and genetic studies indicating that the island’s first inhabitants were Berbers from North Africa, a group that today lives in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and parts of the Sahara.
“This is the first ancient DNA study that includes archaeological remains from all the seven Canary Islands,” said Rosa Fregel, a population geneticist at the Universidad de La Laguna in Spain. Her team’s results, which were published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, also undercut the idea that the islands’ early indigenous inhabitants were not explorers in their own right.
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GGG Ping.
large-scale movement of people from North Africa.
I remember reading years ago that the Greeks and later the Romans made slave raids on the islands to obtain the desired ‘Nordic’ looking people living there for sex slaves that were preferred at that time.
It was hundreds of years before Islam, before the Arab conquest of the Levant and Palestine, or their spread into Egypt and later across north Africa - hundreds of years before all that.
There is no palestine .
“100 C.E.” — that’s the way a lisping homosexual writes, B.C., because he’s a Church-hating atheist who hangs out in airport bathrooms and highway rest stops.
Peter — remember that many of the greatest Christians of the period 100 AD to 500 AD were North Africans — like St. Augustine of Hippo (in present day Tunisia) or Origen (from Egypt) or the Egyptian desert fathers. St. Augustine was a Berber.
I know. During the Ice Age, Europeans took refuge in Iberia. I expect North Africa too. The most populous DNA haplogroups came out of the Iberian refuge.
“Arab conquest of the Levant and Palestine, “
Where can I find a list of the “Palestine Kings/Rulers’ from 100CE thru present day ???
Thanx in advance.....
And I am sure they were visited many times long before it was settled. The “sea people”, the Phoenicians, then the Berbers.
I would be curious if there might also be some Phoenician DNA they haven’t looked for yet.
To: w
“Arab conquest of the Levant and Palestine, “
Where can I find a list of the “Palestine Kings/Rulers’ from 100CE thru present day ???
Thanx in advance.....
Bravo! That’s exactly who’s been instrumental in orchestrating the change in terms typified by “C.E.” You couldn’t have described them any better than you have here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_history_of_the_region_of_Palestine
But, given that it is a Wiki page, you have to take the accuracy as “possible” and not certain. ANYONE can edit and alter a Wiki page; their moderators do not make any attempt to certify anyone as an expert over what they edit and alter.
“There is no palestine .”
There is not in the Koran but there is in the Bible. Care to edit your post?
100 AD, not BC.
I didn’t know Berbers were given to seafaring...
No, this was centuries before the Berbers were Islamicized-— which happened in the 7th- 8th century AD.
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