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I don't know where they went exactly but there is now no doubt that they all left north africa because byzantines were hostile to them especially because of their christian doctrina : arianism which was considered as an heresy by byzantines (Btw they were only 80 000 mainly controlling the eastern part of the maghreb and families living around Carthage)
No that's not really possible
That's not exactly true when Rome defeated Carthage they only took what is now known as tunisia and called it "africa" ...Numidia will be under roman rule in 46 BCE and Mauretania in 44 AD. Moreover you have to know that the whole area was quite peaceful compared to other provinces that's why only one legion was stationed there.
About pre-islamic berbers you have guanches : "Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans" https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...60982217312575
so no big changes since then. I will also add this :source : https://journals.plos.org/plosgeneti...l.pgen.1002397The results of this study show that there is a native genetic component that defines North Africans. In-depth study of these markers shows that the people inhabiting North Africa today are not descendants of the earliest occupants of this region fifty thousand years ago, but shows that the ancestors of today's North Africans were a group of populations that already lived in the region around thirteen thousand years ago. Furthermore, this local North African genetic component is very different from the one found in the populations in the south of the Sahara, which shows that the ancestors of today's North Africans were members of a subgroup of humanity who left Africa to conquer the rest of the world and who subsequently returned to the north of the continent to settle in the region
Here my genetic distances to ancient samples :
close to guanches and punics so we were not really different compared to our ancestors
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