Posted on 07/28/2017 1:01:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The new samples come from Sidon, a coastal city in Lebanon. Marc Haber, a geneticist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K., extracted enough DNA from the ancient skeletons to sequence the whole genomes of five Canaanite individuals, all around 3700 years old.
Haber’s first mission was to figure out who the Canaanites were, genetically speaking. Ancient Greek sources suggested they had migrated to the Levant from the East. To test that, Haber and colleagues compared the Canaanite genomes to those of other ancient populations in Eurasia. It turned out the Greeks were half right: About 50% of the Canaanites’ genes came from local farmers who settled the Levant about 10,000 years ago. But the other half was linked to an earlier population identified from skeletons found in Iran, the team reports today in The American Journal of Human Genetics. The researchers estimate these Eastern migrants arrived in the Levant and started mixing with locals around 5000 years ago.
... Iosif Lazaridis, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, saw the same mixture of eastern and local ancestry in the genomes of ancient skeletons from Jordan. “It’s nice to see that what we observed wasn’t a fluke of our particular site, but was part of this broader Canaanite population,” Lazaridis says.
Now that Haber had confirmed who the Canaanites were, he set out to find out what happened to them. He compared their genomes to those of 99 living Lebanese people and hundreds of others in genetic databases. Haber found that the present-day Lebanese population is largely descended from the ancient Canaanites, inheriting more than 90% of their genes from this ancient source. The other 7% may have come from migrants from Central Europe who moved to the Levant around 3000 years ago.
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Cool. I’ve always wonder what happened to the Canning nighters. Just thought they moved to the Smokey Mountains.
Oh. I thought those were the Elektriklites.
LOL.
I get the feeling the study was trying to connect the ‘Palestinians’ with the Canaanites.
And instead...
It sounds fishy to me too
My DNA test says I have 2% of North African background which could be Canaanite, Jewish or who knows?
Interesting...
Old Jewish joke:
The Israeli Ambassador at the U.N. began, “Ladies and gentlemen before I commence with my speech, I want to relay an old Passover story.
“When Moses was leading the Jews out of Egypt toward the Promised Land, he had to go through the nearly endless Sinai desert.
“When they reached the Promised Land, the people had become very thirsty and needed water. So Moses struck the side of a mountain with his staff and a pond appeared with crystal clean, cool water. The people rejoiced and drank to their hearts’ content.
“Moses put down his staff and went to a solitary corner of the pond to drink, and meditate in prayer. But once Moses returned, he found that his staff had been stolen.
“I have reason to believe ladies and gentlemen that the Palestinians stole the staff of our great Prophet Moses.’”
The Palestinian delegate to the UN, hearing this accusation, jumps from his seat and screams out, “This is a travesty. It is widely known that there were no such thing as ‘Palestinians’ at that time!”
“And with that in mind,” said the Israeli Ambassador, “let me now begin my speech.”
No, the Canning nights produced moonshine. The Electriklites were in Gator Aid that has everything a body needs. Idiocracy, the Movie even irrigated their crops, because Gator Aid has everything a body needs. The most popular show on TV, "Oh My Balls".
Any sign of the Budlites or their archival the Kurzlites?
So the theocrat mullahs of Tehran do after all have an “ancestral” stake in the region of Lebanon, Palestine & Jordan?? /sarc
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