Comment by drKarl
4 years ago
On point. What does "white" mean anyways? In Spain for example there's a mix of iberian-celtic tribes, fenicians, greeks, romans, visigoths (which were germanic tribes), arabic (Al-Andalus califate lasted around 700 years and controlled more than half the iberian peninsula), etc and more recently instead of conquest, there's inmigration from South America, Africa, Asia...
Much like everywhere in Europe, the Spanish population is stable since the Bronze Age. Subsequent invasions are anecdotal. Considering the European population is generally very young and homogeneous compared to that of other continents, it does make sense to consider it as one ethnic block (whatever you call it, "white" or not, is of little interest).
How do we even know that a population hasn’t shifted since the Bronze Age?
Sampling of DNA from buried bodies from the eras?