Tribes

A map of Europe's tribes around 52 BC

German researchers have traced the origins of modern Europeans to a migratory melting pot of three ancient tribes dating back 8,000 years.

Comment: The European construct of 'African tribes' is one that served the colonial administration. Today, Europe must accept the profound effect of its past on its present, writes Lorenzo Kamel.

From Awakening The Horse People: "Do you know the people you come from?” This is the one question most commonly asked by the world’s Indigenous peoples to people of European heritage. For the large majority of us in America, Europe, and elsewhere, the honest answer beyond simple genealogy is, “I don’t know.” Unfortunately, this not…

History of Europe - Greeks, Romans, and barbarians: The main treatment of Classical Greek and Roman history is given in the articles Aegean civilizations; ancient Greek civilization; Hellenistic Age; ancient Italic people; and ancient Rome. Only a brief cultural overview is offered here, outlining the influence of Greeks and Romans on European history. Of the Indo-European tribes of European origin, the Greeks were foremost as regards both the period at which they developed an advanced culture and their importance in further evolution. The Greeks emerged in the course of the 2nd millennium bce through the superimposition of a branch of the Indo-Europeans on the population of the Mediterranean

A new study reveals six political ‘tribes’ across Europe with different views about the EU and its future. Where do you fit?

Most present-day Europeans are a mixture of three ancient populations, according to a major study published in the journal Nature.

Europe is the second smallest of the seven continents covering roughly 2% of the earth's surface. The name "Europe" has long been thought...

Are there any surviving indigenous European tribes in western Europe? If so, why aren't they ever mentioned in reference to European cultures? This is a strange question. We West Europeans ARE the indiginous tribes, for all intents an purposes. Th...

First of all Stonehenge is not that old by European standards. It only dates from the 3rd millennium BCE. To get an idea of how much older human habitation on the continent is take a look at the Sesklo Neolithic settlement in Greece (6th millenniu...

The Indigenous peoples of Europe are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various indigenous groups that reside in the nations of Europe. According to German monograph Minderheitenrechte in Europa co-edited by Pan and Pfeil (2002) there are 87