[Red Badger]

PinGGG!..................

[Red Badger]

Could be Minoans...................

[Two Kids' Dad]

“I am a Philistinian and I demand my ancestral land back! It belonged to my people long before the displaced Jordanians showed up.”

[Dr. Ursus]

The sea people?

[smvoice]

*BKMK*

[SkyDancer]

Philistine in Hebrew means “invaders”.

[yarddog]

I wonder what the Philistines religion was? Were they Baal worshipers or maybe like the Greeks with their Olympian Gods?

[AppyPappy]

“possibly because of a cataclysmic intersection of climate change and man-made disasters”

Damn SUV’s nearly killed us off

[mountainlion]

Each different group that examines DNA comes up with a different answer. My ethnic breakdown from AncestryDNA, 23 and me and from Family Tree DNA are all quite different with differences of 50% in one case. The first report on the King Tut DNA was that he was Irish. From what I remember reading a group left Egypt and became Phoenicians. They settled and became the Philistines and got wiped out in war. A Roman Cesar destroyed Israel and named the whole are Palestrina which became Palestine as revenge on the area.

[Buttons12]

Philistine genes bkmk, thanks Red B!

[Born to Conserve]

Eric Cline — great talk on the bronze age collapse:
https://youtu.be/bRcu-ysocX4

[Boogieman]

“Philistine ceramics bear similarities to styles found in the Aegean, but concrete evidence of their geographic origins has remained elusive.”

That’s not entirely true. The Egyptians painted murals of the various Sea Peoples (or the Nine Bows as the Egyptians called them), including their distinctive clothing, armor, and weapons. If you compare those with what the archaeological record tells us of the clothing, armor, and weapons of known peoples, then that provides pretty concrete evidence. For example, one tribe of Sea Peoples is depicted wearing horned helmets. Well, horned helmets were only used by one people in the ancient world at that time, the Minoan Greeks.

The Sea Peoples were not all Greek though, they also included people from other places around the Mediterranean, such as Sardinia and Sicily, but those places were in the Greek sphere of influence with Greek colonies nearby. They also allied with the Libyans and other traditional enemies of the Egyptians or Hittites at times.

It seems to me this situation, with waves of Greek warriors/mercenaries suddenly appearing on the far side of the sea, is probably linked to the end of the Trojan war. It’s not hard to imagine that the Odyssey with its fables of Greeks sailing around and adventuring for 15 years after the war might be a myth based on the actual exploits of bands of displaced Greeks at the end of the war seeking adventure in Egypt, Canaan, and Lebanon.

[Albion Wilde]

a new study says help prove the European origin of the Philistines

We all knew white people were to blame.

[Albion Wilde]

[Openurmind]

Very good find man. Scandinavians... Vikings... origin of the Sea Peoples...

Their very existence depended on the sea and beyond, just like the Inuits. Good thing the fish provided vitamin D or they would have not have advanced as a species and culture. Very little sunlight most of the year required a supplemental source of D to continue. It was an accident they survived...

[linMcHlp]

DNA does not indicate where you are from, but where you have been.