They say that Iberians settled on the Peninsula more than 8,000 years ago, but according to some other sources they might appear there even earlier. One of such source states that there was the Azilian-Tardenoisian race who came to Pyrenees more than 10,000 years ago, much earlier that the Iberoids. What is known is that they basically became the dominant race of the whole region. By this we mean that they were the most successful in terms of achievement, as they were keen navigators of the Mediterranean, and they set up mines for flint and ochre. There does not seem to be much evidence and fact about those tribes having fights with each other with land occupationIt is suggested that Iberians were not high in height, with oval face, and might pass for southern or asian tribes. It is assumed that they had a coppery skin colour like many of their contemporaries. They live on today in the form of the Basque people of the Pyrenees region of the Peninsula. Another name for the Iberians is the Euro-African race; such was the success of their travels. Many credit this group with being the first real sea-farers, and it is known that they spread throughout southern Europe, Egypt, Britain and Norway. It is also said that they spread their worship of a Neptune-like deity to these places, especially Egypt. In Roman times, the Iberians were known to the Italians as Atlanteans and raised types of towers known as Nuraghi in the Balearic Isles and Talayots in Sardinia. The beehive tombs of Mycenae have also been attributed to the Iberians, as well as the brooches of Scotland. Though artefacts have been found as far away as Wales in the British Isles, founds in cave and grottoes of North-Western part of modern Europe. Iberian coins are shown similar to Greek ones, and some names are still in use by the Basques, pointing out probable kinship. Not that coins and place names are needed to prove the link between Basque and Iberian - the Basque language is seen as the only surviving local tongue with direct roots to ancient Iberian.
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