Berbers or the Berber peoples, also called by their contemporary self-name Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb. The Berbers are and have been of great interest me primarily due to initially hearing the claim that 40% of an Ait Haddidu Berber population examined in the 1950s was Rh-. This has now been questioned, though not ruled out. The Maghreb region in northwestern Africa is believed to have been inhabited by Berbers from at least 10,000 BC. Cave paintings, which have been dated to twelve millennia before present, have been found in the Tassili n’Ajjer region of southeastern Algeria. … Continue reading What did the original Berbers look like?