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V.G., for a moment I thought that you were refering to the Tartessians. But as far as I know nothing suggests that they were in the Peninsula from the Neolithic.

Could you post some info on Bosch Gimpera's theories/research on these types? (perhaps a new thread on the... uh.. mediterranid(?) sub-forum).
Here we go. I have translated some summary of his theories regarding the pre-iberian element among the spanish population. Full text in spanish I add after and you can put the text when you want. I add some pictures aswell. Just to say that Bosch Gimpera's theories (especially his theory about the iberians origin) nowadays are quite doubtful but interesting to know.


The pre-iberian elements. - At the end of the Paleolithic there was formed in the oriental and southern zone of Spain a group of peoples that, have spread over the Peninsula, except in the Cantabrian zone, which however was not free of infiltrations, there came to constitute the most important ethnic and numerous base the later populations. The decisive element of these peoples is the one that in the final Paleolithic develops the so called "capsiens" culture, with cave paintings in the Spanish Levant, with impressionistic style, in connection with those of the North of Africa and also related with other places in Spain from Africa, in a period hold today to many discussions, they were already anthropologically a very complex composition, and in the Peninsula they should have absorbed the previous population of the lower Paleolithic, in whom we know they were neandertaloids,
. In the Epi-Paleolithic, the capsienses, displeasing groups that passed the Pyrenees, across France came to the western Europe and even they infiltrated the Rhin valley, the Alpine zone and, perhaps, furthermore far. Probably to this capsiens infiltration can be present the presence in western Europe of elements with anthropologic similarity, which were mixed of different manners by other races and western peoples, given place to the appearance of unit that some people have wanted to find in the western pre-indogermanic populations

We do not possess human remains of the capsienses that were established in Spain. But we can imagine what was his anthropology for the anthropologic phenomena that appear in the limits of his extension in Europe, as well as for the human remains of the Epi-Paleolithic that exist in Portugal (“concheros de Muge”), belonging to this culture. Among the Muge's skeletons exists certain diversity of types, there being mixed the dolicocephalics and the braquicephalics of different stature and abounding the negroid features. It seems that it is a question of a complex population, in whom it had pigmoids related to the pigmies of Africa and other elements similar to the negroes, and who knows if in Africa they become with the time the camites. Also there could be survivals of neandertaloides, since Mendes Correa has found among the Muge types similarities with the race of Combe Capell of France, analogous to that of Predmost in the Danube, in which can be seeing as a transformation of the neandertaloids.

Based on Muge's capsienses, has wanted to explain the appearance of Grimaldi's negroid race in the French Côte d'Azur, place of intersection of an African culture with the European auriñaciense, as well as that in Willendorf and on other stations of the Upper Paleolithic of Austria and Moravia, same thing that in the French aurignacien, where there are everywhere infiltrations and relations with the mentioned culture, the human representations of the art should offer the type of man and woman with esteatopigia, typical of the pigmoides peoples of Africa. Also the appearance was explained of the same way regarding thef pigmoides in Switzerland in the Neolithic, as well as the negroid features that time to time appear in the neo-eneolitich skeletons inFrance and even in the modern population of the west of Europe and in the Mediterranean (Italy, Switzerland).

Probably, the capsienses were formed in the North of Africa, in a moment of week firmness of the races that can be found at the end of the lower Paleolithic and with which they coincided, interbreeding in a very complex way, anthropologically diverse elements, which perhaps were not forming still compact races, or which, if they were constituting them already, they had been going to stop there extreme groups, thanks to the nomadism of the peoples of the Paleolithic

After the changes of climate and of culture at the end of the Paleolithic, the former capsienses groups are fixed in the different regions of the Spanish territory, since they had been fixed in other places of Western Europe. In the Peninsula, the geographical isolation of some of his regions should have helped to form ethnic groups with different personality, and in them the anthropologic capsienses types should have evolved attenuating his primitive features. Among these, the negroids disappear increasingly, staying a series of dolicocephalics and braquicephalics types that rare times turn out to be isolated, but they combine of different way. In general, there are in minor proportion the braquicephalics, which nevertheless, in some places they can prevail, the same as in others the dolicocephalics abound more.

With the Eneolithic, the peoples derived from the capsienses reached a moment of cultural height, tackling relate with the countries of the coast of Western Europe, especially with Brittany and Ireland, where it has managed to suppose a real peninsular settling, to which it should to attribute the abundance in the modern population of western types related to those of the Peninsula.



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Los elementos preibéricos.- A fines del Paleolítico se formó en la zona oriental y meridional de España un grupo de pueblos que, al extenderse por la Península, excepto en la zona cantábrica, que no se vío tampoco libre de infiltraciones, vino a constituir la base étnica más importante y numerosa de sus pueblos posteriores. El elemento decisivo de estos pueblos es el que en el Paleolítico final desarrolla la llamada cultura “capsiense”, con sus pinturas rupestres del Levante español, de estilo impresionista, en conexión con las del Norte de Africa y de otros lugares en España desde Africa, en período sujeto hoy a muchas discusiones, debían teenr una composición antropológica ya muy compleja, y en la Península debieron absorber la población anterior del Paleolítico inferior, en la cual sabemos que había neandertaloides, de los que se han encontrado varios cráneos en las cuevas de Gibraltar (musteriense) y una mandíbula en el lago de Bañolas, de la provincia de Gerona. En el Epipaleolítico, los capsienses, desplazando grupos que pasaron el Pirineo, a través de Francia llegaron a la Europa occidental y aun se infiltraron por el valle del Rin, la zona alpina y, acaso, aun más lejos. Quizás a esta infiltración capsiense se debiera la presencia en Occidente de Europa de elementos antropológicos semejantes, que se mezclaron de distintos modos con las demás razas y pueblos occidentales, habiendo dado lugar a la apariencia de unidad que algunos han querido encontrar en la población preindogermánica de Occidente.
No poseemos restos humanos de los capsienses que se establecieron en España. Pero podemos imaginarnos lo que fuera su antropología por los fenómenos antropológicos que aparecen en los límites de su extensión en Europa, así como por los restos humanos del Epipaleolítico que existen en Portugal (concheros de Muge), pertenecientes a esta cultura. Entre los esqueletos de Muge existe cierta diversidad de tipos, mezclándose los dolicocéfalos y los braquicéfalos de distinta estatura y abundando los rasgos negroides. Parece que se trata de una población compleja, en la que había pigmoides emparentados con los pigmeos de Africa y otros elementos parecidos a los negros, y quien sabe si a los que en Africa fueron con el tiempo los camitas. También pudo haber supervivencias de neandertaloides, pues Mendes Correa ha encontrado entre los tipos de Muge semejanzas con la raza de Combe Capell de Francia, análoga a la de Predmost en el Danubio, en las cuales se suele ver una transformación de los neandertaloides.
.A base de los capsienses de Muge, se ha querido explicar la aparición de la raza negroide de Grimaldi en la Costa Azul francesa, lugar de intersección de una cultura africana con la del auriñaciense europeo, así como que en Willendorf y en otras estaciones del Paleolítico superior de Austria y Moravia, lo propio que en el auriñaciense francés, en donde hay en todas partes infiltraciones y relaciones con la citada cultura, las representaciones humanas del arte ofrezcan el tipo de hombre y mujer esteatopigíca, característica de los pueblos pigmoides de Africa. También se explicó de la misma manera la aparición de pigmoides en Suiza en el Neolítico, así como los rasgos negroides que de cuando en cuando aparecen en los esqueletos neoeneolíticos de Francia y aun en la población moderna del occidente de Europa y del Mediterráneo (Italia, Suiza).
Probablemente, los pueblos capsienses se formaron en el Norte de África, en momento de poca fijeza de las razas que allí se encontraban a fines del Paleolítico inferior y en el que coincidieron, entrecruzándose de manera muy compleja, elementos antropológicos diversos, que acaso no formaban todavía razas compactas, o de las cuales, si las constituían ya, habían ido a parar allí grupos extremos, gracias al nomadismo de las gentes del Paleolítico.
El concepto de “pueblos de la cultura capsiense” no es probablemente antropológico, sino étnico, aunque cabe destacar en ellos tipos antropológicos distintos bien caracterizados y que se pueden emparentar con otras razas conocidas.
Después de los cambios de clima y de cultura de fines del Paleolítico, se fijan los antiguos grupos capsienses en las distintas regiones del territorio español, como se habían fijado en otros lugares del Occidente de Europa. En la Península, el aislamiento geográfico de algunas de sus regiones debió contribuir a formar grupos étnicos con personalidad distinta, y en ellos los tipos antropológicos capsienses debieron evolucionar atenuando sus rasgos primitivos. Entre éstos, los negroides desaparecen cada vez más, quedando una serie de tipos dolicocéfalos y braquicéfalos que raras veces aparecen aislados, sino que se combinan de distinta manera. En general, están en proporción menor los braquicéfalos, que sin embargo, en algunos lugares acaban por predominar, lo mismo que en otros abundan más los dolicocéfalos.
En la Península, en el Neolítico y sobre todo en el Eneolítico, se forman, por los pueblos derivados de los antiguos capsienses, los que desarrollan las culturas llamadas occidental o de los megalitos portugueses, y central o de las cuevas y del vaso campaniforme. A través de las prolongaciones de los capsienses por el Este de Cataluña, la cultura central española se comunica con la cultura de las cuevas del sur de Francia y aun del Norte de Italia, desarrolladas quizá por otros grupos capsienses. Más al Norte, los capsienses se desnaturalizaron por la mezcla de otros pueblos. Pero la presencia de elementos de población derivados de los capsienses en distintos puntos del Occidente de Europa, explica la aparición de ciertos tipos antropológicos a los que antes se creía poder reducir la poder reducir la población prehistórica española y portuguesa, tales como el tipo dolicocéfalo de Baumes Chaudes, abundante en el Sur de Francia, y la raza braquicéfala de Grenelle, de cara baja, que abunda en Francia, combinada con las demás del país. Estos tipos dolicocéfalos o braquicéfalos de origen capsiense son los que se suelen llamar “razas occidentales” por los antropólogos. En España, la extensión de los pueblos de la cultura central por la zona montañosa de Santander y Asturias, borrando de allí a los pueblos pirenaicos, acabó por hacer predominar en tales lugares los tipos braquicéfalos, elemento importante que continúa en la moderna población de Asturias y cuya existencia se comprueba ya en principios del la Edad del Bronce.
Con el Eneolítico, los pueblos derivados de los capsienses alcanzaron un momento de apogeo cultural, emprendiendo relaciones con los países de la costa del Occidente de Europa, sobre todo con Bretaña e Irlanda, en donde se ha llegado a suponer una verdadera colonización peninsular, a la que se debería atribuir la abundancia en la población moderna de tipos occidentales emparentados con los de la Península.
Tal apogeo se mantiene, en cierto modo, durante parte de la Edad del Bronce, en que decaen las culturas peninsulares, excepto la formada por los almerienses-iberos, el tercer elemento indígena de la población peninsular, del que luego nos ocuparemos. Es probable que estos pueblos almerienses se extendiesen por distintas zonas de Andalucía, y aun por el centro de España, a fines del Eneolítico o principios del Bronce, como en el Eneolítico habían ocupado toda la zona oriental hasta los límites de la extensión pirenaica, lo propio que el valle del Ebro. Con tal expansión de los pueblos almerienses o ibéricos empiezan a dislocarse o extinguirse los capsienses. Es posible que sólo permaneciesen fuertes masas suyas en Portugal y Galicia; en Asturias, en la parte occidental de la submeseta norte (reino de León, sobre todo); en la mayor parte de Extremadura, y aun en Castilla la Nueva.
Este es el estado de cosas que encontraron los invasores célticos, los cuales, si bien matizaron muchos de los pueblos indígenas derivados de los capsienses y los transformaron políticamente, no consiguieron desnaturalizar la población anterior, que en muchos lugares sigue siendo la continuación de los pueblos derivados de los antiguos capsienses. Parece que se ha de considerar como teniendo este último carácter en la Antigüedad, a los que las fuentes literarias llaman oestrimnios de Portugal, a los satures de buena parte de Asturias y León, y acaso a los cinetas del Sur de Portugal, aunque en ellos, como entre los pueblos que forman el grupo tartésico del valle del Guadalquivir (tartesios propiamente dichos, gletes, etmaneos, etc.), cabe sospechar la persistencia de la población capsiense más o menos matizada por los iberos. También es muy probable que predomine el elemento de estirpe capsiense entre los vetones, que no parecen apenas celtizados, lo propio que debieron abundar entre los vacceos, con gran influencia celta, y existir en proporción mayor o menor en los grupos celtibéricos y carpetanos, así como que matice a los iberos del valle de Ebro y de la costa oriental. En Cataluña, es muy posible que estén constituidos, étnicamente, a base de los antiguos capsienses matizados con pirenaicos, la mayor parte de los pueblos de la zona montañosa del interior de la región y aun del litoral hasta el nivel de las costas de Garraf y el Campo de Tarragona: lacetanos, cesetanos, layetanos, indigetes, ausetanos, bergistanos, castellani. En los lacetanos, habitantes de las montañas de la Cataluña central, derivados de los pueblos de la costa, y en éstos (cesetanos, layetanos, indigetes), hay que admitir otras matizaciones célticas y sobre todo ibéricas. En cambio, en los ausetanos (Besalú-Olot), al influencia pirenaica debió ser importante, quedando aparte de los pueblos capsienses los ceretanos de la Cerdeña y los pueblos, cuyo nombre desconocemos, de la alta provincia de Lérida y con ella del Alto Aragón.


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I can see, more or less, the relation between most of them. But the first picture from the left, second row, of your second post.. what's that? Looks part gypsy or something.

I've just asked someone, who has no idea that this is about anthropology, what would he say this woman is: a Gypsy.
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I can see, more or less, the relation between most of them. But the first picture from the left, second row, of your second post.. what's that? Looks part gypsy or something.

I've just asked someone, who has no idea that this is about anthropology, what would he say this woman is: a Gypsy.
Yes, she looks gypsy. I think she is partly pre-iberian and partly orientalid. Not fully pre-iberian for sure. That is the reason you do not see relation with the other types. I took the picture from Gimpera's book, the woman seems to be from Fraga (Huesca) where still there are catalan speaking people but really she do not look average catalan people. Probably some "exotic" element or just that Gimpera took a gysy as pre-iberian exemple by mistake?
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I took the picture from Gimpera's book, the woman seems to be from Fraga (Huesca) where still there are catalan speaking people but really she do not look average catalan people.
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I drive pass that area at times. They use forms of Catalan which are pefectly identifiable as Valencian. I would say that even beyond the Catalan spoken in Lerida.

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From what I've observed, the type is most alien to the area.
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I just see some Meds here. Not standard models, very typified Meds but still Meds. Some women seem brachycephalic though.

If I believe what I've read, the peoples we've here are supposed to be descendants of remote archaic peoples with negroid features -sorta Pigmids- that evolve into that. Really?...

As for Grimaldi's man, I thought the negroid theory was outdated.
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From what I gather, Bosch Gimpera made a big mistake there messing up the Capsiensis with the old European population which is identified in Genetics as R1b.
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If Capsians were -as I read on some online article- a Proto-Mediterranean group, what the Berbers would be then? I say that because the people on the pictures remind me a lot (excepting the woman of Fraga and maybe other) of the non-Arabized Berbers that can be found nowadays in small North African communities, mostly distributed in the mountains, communities that supposedly appear to be the same that French soldiers of the XX century defined as "false-Arabs" because of their high percentage of blonde hair and light eyes. Curiously, something similar the Spaniards said about the natives of the Canary Islands, the Guanches, but adding that they were also very robust, probably because they conserved their Paleolithic aspect, and that they had a relative great height (1,75-1,82 meters) for the standards of the XV century. As a curious note, some historians also point on the Iberomaurisian (the previous culture to the Capsian period, with almost 2.000 years of distance between both) origins of the Guanches, something that would create a big Atlanto-Med wheel, since the Iberomaurisians originated in Iberia, but well, those are all theories. Is there anyone more familiar with them?
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