Posted on 11/03/2008 5:16:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The Phoenicians, enigmatic people from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, stamped their mark on maritime history, and now research has revealed that they also left a lasting genetic imprint. Scientists reported Thursday that as many as 1 in 17 men living today on the coasts of North Africa and southern Europe may have a Phoenician direct male-line ancestor. These men were found to retain identifiable genetic signatures from the nearly 1,000 years the Phoenicians were a dominant seafaring commercial power in the Mediterranean basin, until their conquest by Rome in the 2nd century B.C... The scientists who conducted the new research said this was the first application of a new analytic method for detecting especially subtle genetic influences of historical population migrations. Such investigations, supplementing the traditional stones-and-bones work of archaeology, are contributing to a deeper understanding of human mobility over time. The study was directed by the Genographic Project, a partnership of the National Geographic Society and IBM Corporation, with additional support from the Waitt Family Foundation. The international team described the findings in the current American Journal of Human Genetics... Samples of the male Y-chromosome were collected from 1,330 men now living at six sites known to have been settled in antiquity as colonies and trading outposts of the Phoenicians. The sites were in Cyprus, Malta, Morocco, the West Bank, Syria and Tunisia.
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One in every port?
From the research emerged a distinctive Phoenician genetic signature, in contrast to genetic traces spread by other migrations, like those of late Stone-Age farmers, Greek colonists and the Jewish Diaspora. The scientists thus concluded that, for example, one boy in each school class from Cyprus to Tunis may be a descendant of Phoenician traders.
How was it different? Mr. Wilford is getting on in years I know, but shouldn't an editor have picked up this sentence laying out there without an explanantion?
“All we had to guide us was history: we knew where they had and hadn’t settled.”
The politically-correct version of history, that is.
I agree — everyone’s at least a cousin, so what he’s writing doesn’t make a lot of sense. Obviously, nearly everyone (if not everyone) in former Phoenician areas are descended from the Phoenicians, by virtue of the fact that they were a going concern so long ago. Just because some particular Y-marker isn’t there doesn’t mean the rest of the chromosome pairs haven’t dropped through. And even if they haven’t (i.e., let’s get at the limitation of such studies), they are still ancestors.
No wonder so many people are under the spell of Obama...
Every episode could have been titled, “Shatner’s Women”. ;’)
Sailors spreading their DNA!
Wow! Who’d a thunk it?!?!
New York Times, you guys are right up there on things, aren’t ya? Want to now tell us who will win the 1927 World Series?
New York Times, go Phoenician yourself!
New York Times, go Phoenician yourself!LOL! They aren't called "seamen" for nothin'.
Been in town long, sailor?
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I think the local girls were attracted to my rigging.
As always, great choice of graphic.
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