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Hesperia

Your Iberian Roots

For people with roots in Spain, Portugal, the Basque Country, Catalonia, the Balearics and the Canary Islands, and for Latin Americans of Iberian descent. We model your DNA against the ancient regional core (the first farmers, the Bell Beaker arrival, El Argar, Celtiberians and Iberians, Roman Hispania, the Visigoths, Al-Andalus and the Christian kingdoms) and non-regional outside admixture, then show which of 14 communities you most resemble, with an AI narrative.

🏺 Ancient regional core (Neolithic farmers, Bell Beaker, El Argar, Celtiberians)
🌍 Non-regional layer (North African, Levantine, Sephardic proxy, Central European)
🏰 14 Iberian communities compared directly
🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA haplogroup classification
📊 7 periods, from the Deep past to the Middle Ages
🤖 Results interpreted by Claude AI, in 7 languages

⚠️ Designed for people with roots in the Iberian Peninsula. Works for any of the 14 communities, from Galicia and the Basque Country to Andalusia, Portugal, the Balearics and the Canary Islands, and for Latin Americans of mostly Iberian ancestry. With strong Indigenous or African ancestry, our Raíces report fits better; for southern France see France Profonde, for Sicily, Sardinia and the islands Thalassa, for North Africa Tamazgha. If you are mostly of other ancestry, the fit will be poor and our Advanced Ancestry Report is a better choice. Not sure? The free Report Finder tells you.

Who it is for

Spaniards from every region: Castile, La Mancha, Aragon, Murcia, Andalusia, Extremadura, Asturias and Cantabria.
Portuguese, from the Minho and Trás-os-Montes to Lisbon and the Algarve.
Basques and Navarrese, the most conservative population of the peninsula.
Catalans, Valencians and Balearic islanders, the Mediterranean east coast.
Galicians and Canary Islanders, with their own Atlantic stories (Suebi and Guanches).
Latin Americans and diaspora families whose DNA is mostly Iberian and who want to know which part of the peninsula it looks like.

1. Choose your community

Pick the community your family comes from. Not sure, or mixed origins? Choose "Let the model decide" and we compare you to every community automatically.

Galician

Galicia, the Atlantic north-west, once the Suebic kingdom of Gallaecia, with a strong Iron Age castro-culture substrate and very little Andalusi ancestry

Asturian and Cantabrian

Asturias and Cantabria, the mountain north where the Christian kingdom of Asturias was born in 718, with deep continuity and very little North African admixture

Basque

the Basque Country and Navarre, the most conservative population of Iberia, which kept a pre-Indo-European language through the Bronze Age steppe turnover and shows strong continuity since the Iron Age

Castilian (Old Castile, Burgos)

Old Castile around Burgos, the northern Meseta heartland of the Castilian kingdom, close to the early medieval population of Las Gobas

Manchegan (New Castile)

La Mancha and New Castile, the southern Meseta repopulated from the north after the Reconquista of the 11th to 13th centuries, with a moderate Andalusi legacy

Aragonese

Aragon and the Ebro valley, the Celtiberian and Iberian interior, later a Christian crown with a large Mudejar and Morisco population until 1610

Catalan

Catalonia, the Iberian-speaking north-east coast with Greek Empuries, the Visigothic Tarraconensis and the Carolingian Spanish March

Valencian

Valencia, Contestania of the Iberians, then Sharq al-Andalus, resettled by Catalans and Aragonese after 1238, with one of the largest Morisco populations until 1609

Murcian

Murcia, the heartland of the El Argar Bronze Age, then Byzantine Spania and the Andalusi kingdom of Tudmir

Andalusian

Andalusia, the land of Tartessos and of Phoenician Gadir and Malaka, Roman Baetica and the heart of Al-Andalus (Cordoba, Seville, Granada), with the highest North African share of mainland Spain

Extremaduran

Extremadura, Lusitanian and Vettonian land and Roman Emerita Augusta, resettled from Leon and Castile in the Middle Ages (small reference sample)

Portuguese

Portugal, the Atlantic west from Lusitania and Gallaecia to the Gharb al-Andalus, on a north-south gradient of Andalusi ancestry

Canary Islander

the Canary Islands, a mainland Iberian (largely Andalusian and Portuguese) base over the indigenous Guanches, Amazigh settlers who reached the islands around the beginning of the Common Era (the earliest sampled burials are Late Antique), with some West African ancestry

Balearic (Mallorca)

Mallorca and the Balearics, the Talayotic Bronze Age islands and Punic Ibiza, then Islamic Mayurqa, resettled by Catalans after 1229

🔎 Let the model decide (auto)

We detect which community you are genetically closest to.

What your report models, era by era

🦴 Deep ancestry

The Magdalenian hunters of El Mirón, the Iberian Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, Western Hunter-Gatherers, Anatolian farmers, steppe herders and the Iberomaurusians of Taforalt across the Strait.

🌾 Neolithic & Chalcolithic

The Cardial farmers of the Mediterranean coast, the megalith builders, early contacts with North Africa, and the Bell Beaker arrival of steppe ancestry around 2400 to 2100 BC, the great genetic turnover of Iberia.

⚱️ Bronze Age

Iberian Bell Beaker people with steppe ancestry, the El Argar culture of Murcia and Almería, the Atlantic Bronze Age of Portugal and the Urnfield north-east.

🛡️ Iron Age

The Celtiberians of the upper Ebro, the Iberians of Catalonia and Contestania, Punic Ibiza, Phoenician Málaga and the Greek colonies of Empúries and Alicante.

🏛️ Roman Hispania

Hispano-Romans of Lusitania, Valentia and Conimbriga and the Iberian continuity of the Republican period, with Italian, North African and Levantine proxies for the people who moved within the Empire.

👑 Late Antiquity

The Visigothic-period population of Girona, the Meseta and Granada, the Visigoths and Suebi (Germanic proxy), Byzantine Spania on the south-east coast, Late Antique Baetica and the earliest Guanche burials of the Canaries.

🕌 Medieval

Al-Andalus (Umayyad Andalusia, Sharq al-Andalus) and the Christian kingdoms of the north and of Portugal, the Amazigh and Arab conquest proxies, a Sephardic-like signal (medieval Jews of Tàrrega), the Moriscos of Granada and the pre-conquest Guanches.

🌍 Non-regional outside admixture

Even for people fully from the region, we include North African, Levantine, Arabian, Central European, Italian, Germanic, Sub-Saharan, East Asian and Amerindian proxies, so any real outside ancestry is detected honestly instead of being force-fit onto the wrong regional population.

🏰 Community profile

Which of the 14 Iberian communities your DNA most closely resembles, modelled directly against each community's modern reference population.

🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA lineages

If your raw DNA file is available, we classify your paternal and maternal haplogroups in an Iberian context (e.g. R1b-DF27 and its Basque branch, E-M81, J2, G2a; maternal H3, V, U6).

97 reference populations

Your DNA is modelled against ancient regional proxies, modern community reference populations, and non-regional outside proxies (North African, Levantine, Sephardic, Central European and wider European).

Amerindian proxy

Amerindian (North) proxy · Amerindian (South) proxy

Bronze Age sources

Atlantic Bronze Age, Portugal · Bell Beaker, Central Europe (Germany) · Bell Beaker, France · El Argar, Murcia and Almería (Early and Middle Bronze Age) · Han Bronze Age proxy (East Asian) · Iberian Bell Beaker with steppe ancestry (first steppe arrival) · Steppe pastoralist (Yamnaya) outside source · Urnfield, Aragon and the north-east (Late Bronze Age) · Yoruba Bronze Age proxy (West African)

Classical/Roman sources

Celtic Gaul (Iron Age, non-regional proxy) · Han Classical proxy (East Asian) · Hispano-Roman (Lusitania, Valentia, Conimbriga) · Imperial Roman Italian (Classical) · Late Iron Age Iberian continuity (Republican period) · Roman Levant (Classical) · Roman North Africa, Numido-Roman Berber (Sitifis, Mauretania) · Yoruba Classical proxy (West African)

Deep ancestral sources

Anatolian Neolithic farmer · Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer (CHG, Kotias) · Eastern Hunter-Gatherer (EHG) · Han (East Asian proxy) · Iberian Magdalenian, El Mirón (Upper Palaeolithic) · Iberian Mesolithic hunter-gatherer (Chan, Los Canes, El Mazo, Cueva de la Cocina) · Iberomaurusian, Taforalt (North African Palaeolithic) · Iranian Neolithic farmer (Ganj Dareh) · Levantine Neolithic farmer (PPNB) · Steppe pastoralist (Yamnaya, Samara) · Western Hunter-Gatherer (WHG, Villabruna) · Yoruba (West African proxy)

European host

NW European · S European (Italian) · SE European (Balkan and Aegean) · West European

Iron Age sources

Celtiberian, upper Ebro and Basque country (Iron Age) · Greek colonist, Empúries and Alicante (Iron Age) · Han Iron Age proxy (East Asian) · Iberian, Catalonia and the Ebro (Iron Age) · Iberian, Valencia and Contestania (Iron Age) · Iron Age and early Republican Italy (Latium and Etruria) · Libyphoenician, Kerkouane (North African Punic profile) · Phoenician colonial Málaga (Iron Age) · Phoenician homeland, Lebanon (Iron Age III) · Punic Carthage (outside, metropolitan) · Punic Ibiza (Iron Age) · Yoruba Iron Age proxy (West African)

Late Antiquity sources

Byzantine East Mediterranean (Spania, non-regional proxy) · Guanche, Canary Islands (Late Antiquity, earliest burials) · Han Late Antiquity proxy (East Asian) · Late Antique Baetica with North African ancestry · Late Antique Italy (non-regional proxy) · Late Roman Lusitania, Miroico (Late Antiquity) · Ostrogothic and migration-period Germanic (Northwest European profile, non-regional proxy) · Roman-period North Africa, Numido-Roman Berber (non-regional proxy) · Visigothic-period Girona, Pla de l'Horta (Late Antiquity) · Visigothic-period Granada (Late Antiquity) · Visigothic-period Meseta, Madrid (Late Antiquity) · Yoruba Late Antiquity proxy (West African)

Medieval sources

Al-Andalus, Early Medieval Andalusia (Umayyad emirate and caliphate) · Al-Andalus, Islamic Valencia and Sharq al-Andalus · Amazigh / Berber conquest proxy (Shilha, southern Morocco) · Arabian proxy (Arab conquest elite) · Carolingian and Merovingian north-west Europe (Germanic, Medieval, non-regional proxy) · Christian Portugal, Norte, Centro and Lisboa (High and Late Medieval) · Granada after the Nasrid period (Morisco, early modern) · Guanche, Canary Islands (Medieval, pre-conquest) · Han Medieval proxy (East Asian) · Maghrebi Arab proxy (Morocco) · Medieval Sephardic Jews, Tarrega, Catalonia (1348, non-regional proxy) · Northern Christian kingdoms, Las Gobas (Early Medieval) · Yoruba Medieval proxy (West African)

Modern Iberian communities

Andalusian · Aragonese · Asturian and Cantabrian · Balearic (Mallorca) · Basque · Canary Islander · Castilian (Old Castile, Burgos) · Catalan · Extremaduran · Galician · Manchegan (New Castile) · Murcian · Portuguese · Valencian

Neolithic and Chalcolithic sources

Anatolian Neolithic farmer (outside source) · Corded Ware, Central Europe (Late Neolithic, steppe-related, non-regional proxy) · Han Neolithic proxy (East Asian) · Iberian Bell Beaker, arrival of steppe ancestry (Chalcolithic, c. 2400-2100 BC) · Iberian Early Neolithic, Cardial (Catalonia, Aragon, Andalusia) · Iberian Middle and Late Neolithic, megalithic builders · North African Late Neolithic, Kelif el Boroud · North African Neolithic, Ifri n'Amr ou Moussa (Maghrebi autochthonous) · North African Neolithic, Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Iberian-derived Cardial in Morocco) · Tunisian Neolithic, Doukanet el-Khoutifa · Yoruba Neolithic proxy (West African)

How it works, and its limits

🔬 How to read your results (please read)

Your result is computed by genetic similarity (Global25): we place your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space and find the mixture of reference populations that best reproduces your profile, era by era. Every reference population uses real, official G25 coordinates (published ancient-DNA studies and the official Global25 dataset); none of our reference data is simulated.

Reference populations are statistical proxies: "Al-Andalus" or "Visigothic-period Meseta" means a handful of individuals sampled at a few sites, not a whole people. A North African, Arab or Sephardic-like percentage is a similarity to those samples, not proof of a religion, an ethnicity or a specific ancestor.

Genetics is not identity: this report is not a national, regional or political determination, and neighbouring communities (Castilians and Manchegans, Canary Islanders and Portuguese) can overlap closely in G25, so the closest community is a best-fit estimate.

Why group these 14 communities in one report? They share the same formation story: Neolithic farmers, the Bell Beaker steppe arrival, Iron Age Celtiberians and Iberians, Rome, the Visigoths, eight centuries of Al-Andalus and the Christian kingdoms, with the Basques preserving the oldest layer.

⚠️ Designed for people with roots in the Iberian Peninsula (including Latin Americans of mostly Iberian ancestry). If you are mostly of other ancestry, the models are calibrated for fully-regional profiles and the fit will be poor.

Get your Hesperia report

Select your community above, then confirm your email. We send you a secure link to upload your DNA (raw file or G25 coordinates) and generate your personalised report.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is the Hesperia report for?

It is built for people with roots in the Iberian Peninsula: Spain, Portugal, the Basque Country, Catalonia, the Balearics and the Canary Islands, across 14 communities. Latin Americans of mostly Iberian ancestry can use it too. With strong Indigenous or African ancestry, Raíces fits better, and for other ancestry the Advanced Ancestry Report works better.

Why group Basques, Catalans, Andalusians and Portuguese in one report?

They share the same deep story: Neolithic farmers, the Bell Beaker arrival of steppe ancestry, the Celtiberians and Iberians of the Iron Age, Roman Hispania, the Visigothic kingdom, and eight centuries of Al-Andalus and the Christian kingdoms. The differences between communities (more Andalusi ancestry in the south, more continuity in the north, the Guanche layer in the Canaries) are exactly what the report measures.

I am Latin American. Does it work for me?

Yes, if your DNA is mostly Iberian: the report shows which part of the peninsula your European side resembles, and the Amerindian and Sub-Saharan proxies catch the rest honestly. If a large part of your ancestry is Indigenous or African, Raíces is built for that mix.

Does it detect North African or Sephardic ancestry?

It measures how much of your profile is best explained by Amazigh, Maghrebi Arab and Arabian proxies (the legacy of Al-Andalus and the Moriscos) and by a medieval Sephardic Jewish proxy. These are statistical similarities to sampled individuals, not proof of a religion, an ethnicity or a specific ancestor.

Not sure it fits me. Can I check first?

Yes. The free Report Finder reads your raw DNA file (or your G25) and tells you honestly whether Hesperia is a good match for you, before you spend anything.

Do I need to have taken a DNA test already?

Yes. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA or LivingDNA, or paste your G25 coordinates.

What is the "ancient regional core" in the report?

We model your DNA against Iberian hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers, the Bell Beaker people with steppe ancestry, El Argar and the Atlantic Bronze Age, the Celtiberians, Iberians, Punic and Greek colonies, the Hispano-Romans, the Visigothic-period population and the medieval Christian kingdoms and Al-Andalus.

How much does it cost and what do I get?

€15. A full PDF report with your ancient regional core %, non-regional outside admixture breakdown, seven period-by-period breakdowns, closest modern community reference populations, Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups (if raw file provided), and a narrative interpreted by Claude AI, in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Basque or French.

A DNA report for the Iberian Peninsula

Hesperia is a G25 ancestry report built specifically for people with roots in Spain and Portugal. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA, pick your community, and we model your genome against the ancient regional core plus non-regional outside admixture, era by era, from the first hunters to the Middle Ages.

Whether you are Galician from the old Suebic kingdom, Basque from the most conservative population of Europe, Castilian from the Meseta, Catalan or Valencian from the Iberian-speaking east coast, Andalusian from the heart of Al-Andalus, Portuguese from Lusitania and the Atlantic west, or Canary Islander with a Guanche legacy: Hesperia models the specific genetic layers of your region's history.

The report uses the Global25 (G25) system developed by geneticist Davidski, placing your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space alongside ancient and modern reference populations, all sourced from Davidski's official Global25 datasheets and published ancient-DNA studies.

👁 Sample reports

See two real Hesperia reports

Full example reports, flip through every page: cover, ancient regional core, period breakdowns, closest communities, and the AI narrative.

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🇪🇸 Andalusian sample, English

A southern Spanish profile in English: the regional core, the seven periods from the first farmers to Al-Andalus, the North African layer and the closest communities.

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🇪🇸 Basque sample, Spanish

A Basque profile, report written in Spanish: strong continuity since the Iron Age, very little outside admixture, and the Basque community as the closest match.