A Short History of the Basque Country Archaeological and ethnographic findings indicate that Basque [people] evolved from Cro-Magnon [...] in this area over a period dating from about 40,000 years ago until distinct features were acquired approximately 7,000 years ago. Two thousand years later the sheep, not native to these lands, was introduced and horse and cattle farming came into being, as shown by Adolf Staffe. These circumstances made it necessary for the people to travel periodically
Basque Independence The Basque region is an area divided into three administrative units, the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre in Spain, the arrondissement of Bayonne and the département of Pyrénées Atlantiques in France. The Basque area is unique in that as a mainly indigenous community the Basque people maintained autonomy much later than most of the other provinces and as such have kept a unique identity and culture that is distinct from the other regions of Spain, therefore there is a