[2] Fregel et al. 2018 examined the remains of 8 individuals buried at Kelif el Boroud (c. 3780-3650 BCE) during the Late Neolithic.
[5] The Kelif el Boroud inhabitants were additionally found to be closely related to the native Guanches of the Canary Islands with them having similar admixture profiles, and being ancestral to today's North African populations.
"[6] Later research by Simões, Luciana G et al. 2023, showed KEB can be modelled as a mix of ancestries present in northwestern Africa during the Early and Middle Neolithic periods (7,400-6,000 ya).
The newcomers from Europe and the Levant brought new ways of life, farming practices, goat and sheep domestication and pottery traditions.
These distinct genetic groups coexisted in close proximity, the local hunter-gatherers, farmers from Iberia, and Levantine pastoralists.