North Africans were among the first to colonize the Canary Islands

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 13:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

People from North Africa are likely the main group that founded the indigenous population on the Canary Islands, arriving by 1000 CE, reports a new study by Rosa Fregel of Stanford University and Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, and colleagues, published March 20, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

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