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Origin of Ancient Canary Islanders Guanches: presence of Atlantic/Iberian HLA and Y chromosome genes and Ancient Iberian language

Authors :
Eduardo Gomez-Casado
Cristina Campos
Manuel Martin-Villa
Ester Muñiz
Narcisa Martinez-Quiles
Sandra Tomasi
Antonio Arnaiz-Villena
Jose Palacio-Gruber
Source :
International Journal of Modern Anthropology; Vol 1, No 8 (2015); 67-93
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
African Journals Online (AJOL), 2015.

Abstract

First CanaryIslands(Spain) Inhabitants (“Guanches”) origin has been much debated. Lately, it has come popular the simplistic theory that they came from North Africa. In the present paper, we conclude that not only North Africans but also Iberian/Atlantic Europeans (and possibly others) must have been first Canarians. Debate whether North Africans or Iberians were the first “Guanches” is artificial since Iberian Peninsula-North African genes flow in ancient times was abundant and Iberians share a great part of genetic profile with North Africans. New genetic (HLA) and linguistic data shown in the present paper, is supported by diverse early anthropological and “Guanches” mummies characters which confirm existence of at least two “Guanches” types and a correct interpretation of R1b Y chromosome high frequency in Atlantic Europe (Ireland, British Isles, North Spain,Basque Coast and Portugal), and also, is present in Canary Islands (13.3%). Present paper HLA genes partial data and presence of abundant old Iberian language scripts (which show an easy translation proposal by using Basque) in Fuerteventura and also in Lanzarote and El Hierro Islands suggest that a present day dogma of a hypothetically North African single origin should be changed. Both Atlantic/Europeans and North Africans define origin of Canary Islands first inhabitants. Keywords: Basque, Canary Islands, El Hierro, Fuerteventura, genes, genetic markers, Guanche, HLA, Iberian, Language, Lanzarote, Latin Inscriptions, R1b, R1b1b, Rock scripts, Usko-Mediterranean, Y chromosome.

Details

ISSN :
17378176 and 17377374
Volume :
1
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
International Journal of Modern Anthropology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....1af01b74e41deb2e297bc2c2c3a78993
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.4314/ijma.v1i8.4