[ek_hornbeck]

It's interesting that they found no evidence of Phoenician ancestry among the Ancient Greeks:

By contrast, the researchers found no evidence for proposed migrations to Greece from ancient Egypt or from the areas of the eastern Mediterranean occupied by the Phoenician sea-faring culture.

[BenLurkin]

The major migrations into Europe always come out of the steppes.

[BenLurkin]

The major migrations into Europe always come out of the steppes.

[RoosterRedux]

This is the same doctor who discovered that the Lebanese are from--wait for it--ancient Lebanon.

[jrd]

what haplogroup ?

[blam]

"These nomadic livestock herders from the Steppe had a major impact on the gene pools of Northern and Central Europe."

These People:

The Curse Of The Red-Headed Mummy

(One day, I hope they will begin to include the DNA haplogroups when DNA/genes are mentioned)

It is my opinion that these steppe people went there after the Black Sea Flood.
There were Caucasian (the steppe people) only graveyards being used in Xinjiang, China as recent as 1300 AD.

Genetic Testing Reveals Awkward Truth About Xinjiang’s Famous Mummies (Caucasian)

[Ray76]

North & east... probably from around the Sea of Azov

[mountainlion]

“The researchers don’t know exactly....”

After doing my own DNA if find more and more unanswered questions than answers. Professional guesswork.

[Vic S]

He should do a study on the people of Israel. Are the current inhabitants even Semitic? Would be interesting to see the results, assuming they could be trusted.

[bar sin·is·ter]

[Ancesthntr]

“It’s interesting that they found no evidence of Phoenician ancestry among the Ancient Greeks:”

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I would think that the sea-faring peoples of Phoenicia and environs would have come FROM Greece. There was an influx of “sea peoples” around 1200 BCE to the area (that’s probably where the Philistines came from, at least partly).

[Verginius Rufus]

The article wrongly says that Minoan Linear A can be read but not translated. It can’t be read. There may be some characters which resemble those in Linear B and may have had the same sound (they are both syllabaries) but if enough symbols had known values they might have deduced what language it was, or at least placed the language in a known language family. It could be related to the language spoken on the nearby part of Asia Minor since some similar place names are found in both areas.

[Rockingham]

This seems consistent with the cultural and archaeological evidence. Notably, some readings of the myths about Greek gods have long posited that they reflect a merging of two distinct peoples, with the tempestuous male gods marking the introduction of patriarchal cultures brought by peoples from the Eurasian steppes.

[nonsporting]

So, NOT out of Africa.

Paging Mary Lefkowitz...