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# Palaeogeneticists from the Autonomous University of Barcelona have studied the genomes of 54 Iron Age infants from the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/paleogenetiki-iz-avtonomnogo-universiteta-barselony-issledovali-genomy-54-mladentsev-zheleznogo-veka-s-severo-vostoka-pireneiskogo-poluostrova/
- Published: 2026-06-10T19:33:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:52.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archaeology, Science

Palaeogeneticists from the Autonomous University of Barcelona have studied the genomes of 54 Iron Age infants from the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula. The material was taken from settlements of the Iberians, a pre-Roman people of eastern Spain, within a chronological range of roughly 750 to 250 BC, up to the Roman conquest.

The researchers arrived at an unexpected conclusion: over six centuries the genetic make-up of the Iberians barely changed. They grew out of the local Bronze Age population, which had combined western hunter-gatherers, Anatolian farmers of the Neolithic and the "steppe" component that had arrived earlier, and they changed gradually, without any large-scale migrations. And this despite the fact that the Iberians had traded and lived side by side with Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians for centuries.

That is to say, despite the appearance of an alien material culture, pottery, customs and influences, the genes of the newcomers are barely represented. A noticeable genetic contribution among the Iberians appears only in the Roman era