Tag: Basques
For the Irish, the closest DNA match is with the Basques
The US-based online publication Irish Central, dedicated to the Irish all over the world, has brought back an article on the Basque roots of...
AP, talking about the Ituren-Zubieta Carnival without using the word “Basque”
In what has become a news tradition, the Carnival in Ituren-Zubieta catches the attention of numerous world media outlets, as we've mentioned on many occasions.
This...
In Sardinia, the largest genetic heritage is from the “first Europeans”,...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Paolo Virtuani in the Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera has just written that on Sardinia, the oldest DNA...
The Basque shepherd dog, a very old and intelligent breed (a...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
A while back, we blogged about this race of dogs. We’re doing so again today because of an...
The survival of the Basque language: can it be explained by...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
This is what was insinuated by the authors of a study published on Thursday in PLOS Genetics and...
The discovery of prehistory etchings in Armintxe has become a global...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
In the last few years, the names of Bicayne caves have been showing up in media all over...
Artists triumph around the world only 14,000 years after creating their...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
All who’ve read Jean M. Auel’s The Clan of the Cave Bear have discovered the magic and profound...
The oldest map in Western Europe discovered in a cave in...
We’d like to bring to you today a piece of news that was published before this blog existed, but which we think is extraordinarily...
Basques are from “the day before yesterday”, or science and populism
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Note: a few days after writing this, we couldn’t resist bringing back a story on another article in...
Who the peninsular Basques are: the teachings of History (from Peru)
This article was translated by Joseba Varela
In this day and age, certain voices are casting doubt on which territories actually conform the Basque homeland in...