EVIDENCE OF ATLANTIS

The study concluded:

Our results fully confirm that Basques and Spaniards cluster together with an African population, Algerians. This also supports the theory that Iberians and paleo-North African Hamites (mainly represented by Berbers at present) are genetically related populations with common ancestors and that Basques may be a relative isolate of these primitive Iberian populations. The genetic system used (HLA) is one of the most powerful and polymorphic genetic systems which may be utilized to discriminate populations. In addition, results obtained analyzing haplotype frequencies, particularly of the characteristic haplotype A-30-B18 and A1-B57-Cw7, which are probably markers of neolithic Iberian people (Table 4), further support a relatedness between paleo-North Africans (Berbers) and present-day Spaniards and Basques (Iberians).

In summary, in the present work, complete HLA data on Basques and Spaniards was compared for the first time with similar HLA data on a North African population (Algerian) with a high paleo-North African (Berber) component. Figure 2 (dendrogram) shows that Basques and Spaniards are closer to Algerians than to any other Caucasoid, Negroid or Mongoloid population….These data are the strongest reported genetic support for a common descent of Basques, Spaniards and Algerians [Berbers]…21.

Although reading 364-3 specifies Morocco as an area for Atlantean evidence and not Algeria, it may have been meant in more of an archeological context.

Certainly the Berbers as an ethnic group were not bound by arbitrary divisions of the land they lived on into countries. Also it may be that Morocco was the original place in North Africa where Atlanteans first migrated and they subsequently fanned out in an easterly direction. This is in direct contradiction to what is currently accepted (see above). On the other hand, it may be remembered that many of the “life readings” channeled by Cayce mention people traveling from Atlantis to first the Pyrenees and then to Egypt.

Perhaps some of the “former” Atlanteans who ended up in Egypt migrated west towards Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco and “became” the Berbers. At any rate, a common ancestor of both the Basque population and the Berbers is now a fact. While this does not prove Atlantis in any way, the available genetic evidence could support either the current theory on the Berbers or the statements made in reading 364-3.