Friday, September 20, 2024

Lusitanha

That Atlantic strip of Iberia between Galicia and Cadiz is mapped. The authors approached it on the assumption that an ocean-facing and mountainous coastline might preserve its own independent genetics as, in historical memory, "Portugal" has kept itself from being West Spain.

Skipping over to "Results", which I'm pretty much going to repackage here because I don't like how they compiled it, the story starts with "Cova_das_Lapas_N". This population was I2a1-a1a1a of men, apparently the elder pre-Carthage lineage; and for women, U5b and K1a. Both the latter are actually U*, Ice Age Europeans of longstanding; K1a, though, is usually more Raetic where U5b flitted between the Algarve and Morocco. So already here was some patrilocality and woman-swapping. Someone gotta wash the clothes amirite? Culturally these were Magdalenians.

The next incomers were Cardial Culture: Near Eastern farmers of the G2a men, bringing their own K1a's. Still, the locals survived here for some time, to copper-age ceramic "Cova_das_Lapas_C". Next came them Bell-Beakers - we can call them Lusitanians; although, despite displacing the menfolk in the north as they'd done in Aquitania (and eventually Raetia / Etruria), they didn't take the south. That'll be approaching Tartessus, on the coast southeast of scope.

The Romans, if not Carthage, occasioned some African introgression beyond U5b seawives, getting more serious with Islam. In the latter era is a Q1b1a3a1 man. Positively Siberian; I might even suspect American Indian. But nah: they're saying overall he's a Jew. An Ashkenaz Jew. (Oy!)

It doesn't tell a lot that's new; but it is good to have Portugal finetuned, if you're Portuguese / Brasileiro.

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