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Anthropological and cultural affinities between Northwest Africa and the Iberian Peninsula can be traced as early as the Upper Paleolithic period when the shore-line was some 90 m or more lower than it is today (Saxon 1974), and people of the Cro-Magnon type lived in both areas (Ferembach 1986). Although some pre-Neolithic cultures, such as the Capsian in the Maghreb could have evolved locally, maritime contacts across the Gibraltar strait were possible (Ferembach 1985) and might explain the cultural similarities found between the Mediterranean shores of Europe and Africa (Brett and Fentress 1996). Later, Neolithic agricultural techniques spread, probably from the East along the Mediterranean coasts and inland, to reach the Atlantic border in both areas (Newman 1995). The human migratory impact that this cultural diffusion had on the aboriginal populations is, currently the sugject of scientific controversy (Richards et al. 1996, 1998;Barbujani et al. 1998;Chikhi et al. 1998; Torroni et al. 1998).
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Flores, C., Hernández, M., González, A.M., Cabrera, V.M. (2000). Genetic Affinities Among Human Populations Inhabiting the Subsaharan Area, Northwest Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula. In: Arnaiz-Villena, A., Martínez-Laso, J., Gómez-Casado, E. (eds) Prehistoric Iberia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4231-5_2
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