"Africa Begins At The Pyrenees" - The Racial Theories Of William Ripley

[Damião de Góis]

" Beyond the Pyrenees begins Africa. Once that natural barrier is crossed, the Mediterranean racial type in all its purity confronts us. The human phenomena is entirely parallel with the sudden transition to the flora and fauna of the south. The Iberian population thus isolated from the rest of Europe, are allied in all important anthropological respects with the peoples inhabiting Africa north of the Sahara, from the Red Sea to the Atlantic."

Indeed... written by an american economist in 1899. One century later we have this:



He should have stick to baseball and rodeos.

[Anglojew]

Indeed... written by an american economist in 1899. One century later we have this:



He should have stick to baseball and rodeos.

All I'm getting from those graphs is that the bottom provinces are about 15%+ North African (Blue coloued "E").

[Damião de Góis]

All I'm getting from those graphs is that the bottom provinces are about 15%+ North African (Blue coloued "E").

Shouldn't the pie charts be the same according to the "article" you posted?

The Iberian population thus isolated from the rest of Europe, are allied in all important anthropological respects with the peoples inhabiting Africa north of the Sahara, from the Red Sea to the Atlantic.

[Ibericus]

yep, Africa begins at the Pyrenees indeed :

[Prince Carlo]

Central Italy can't have more than 40% R1b. On a recently published peer-reviewed study Lazio and Marche were 35% R1b. I guess the map did an average with Tuscany who have a higher percentage of R1b, especially NW Tuscany (40-45% on average with some parts scoring more than 60%).

[Atlantic Islander]

[Twistedmind]

Why are you feeding that troll?

[Comte Arnau]

Does it mean that Northern Basques and Northern Catalans aren't African?

[Moghrob]

excellent trolling thread