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The genetics of the pre-Roman Iberian Peninsula: a mtDNA study of ancient Iberians.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Sept 2005
Sampietro M L, Caramelli D, Lao O, Calafell F, Comas D, Lari M, Agustí B, Bertranpetit J, Lalueza-Fox C
Abstract excerpt
The Iberians developed a surprisingly sophisticated culture in the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula from the 6th century BC until their conquest by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. They spoke and wrote a non-Indo-European language that still cannot be understood; their origins and relationships with other non-Indo-European peoples, like the Etruscans, are unclear, since their funerary practices were...
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