How the Neanderthals became the Basques

This article is highly speculative and some of it appears to be racist (there exists a Basque-supremest movement). However, the essence of the article may be true. What it leaves out is that Basque mythology attributes the acquisition of the Basque language to non human predecessors that originally inhabited Basque country.

RE: How the Neanderthals became the Basques

...Looking now at the evidence for the theory that the Basques are descended principally from Neanderthals, everything suddenly falls into place, and the supposition becomes almost self-evident.

Location: The 'home country' of the Neanderthals is well known to have been western Europe. One source says that they "dominated this area for at least a quarter of a million years". Many of the best Neanderthal specimens have originated from the Iberian Peninsular. The Basque Country, lying on the western side of the Pyrenees and on the border between Spain and France, fits in neatly with this location.

The Basques are well-known to have distinctive body characteristics. Kurlansky says "Ample evidence exists that the Basques are a physically distinct group. There is a Basque type with a long straight nose, thick eyebrows, strong chin, and long earlobes" [1].

Basque skulls tend to be built on a different pattern. In the early 1880s, a researcher reported "Someone gave me a Basque body and I dissected it, and I assert that the head was not built like that of other men" [1].

These qualitative differences are indicative, but quantitative evidence, with presence or absence of features, or items being present in different numbers, has greater weight in deciding whether specimens belong to the same or different species. Powerful quantitative evidence comes from a consideration of blood factors...

DNA studies have shown that the Irish and Welsh are direct descendants of the Basques (not Celts), so what is said of the Basques should be true of the Irish and the Welsh. For the most part, it is true, but most of all it is true about blood types. The Irish and Welsh share most of the same blood properties of the Basques.