> ...The term Phoenician is a general one, which covers not only the seafaring peoples based in the ancient cities of Tyre and Sidon (on the coast of modern Lebanon) but also the
sea-roving Israelite tribes of Dan, Asher and Zebulon, whose tribal territories in Canaan were adjacent to these city states on the East Mediterranean coastline. These peoples planted trading posts and mercantile colonies along the shores of north Africa and Spain, and they engaged in a flourishing tin trade in the southwest corner of the British Isles,
Also accurate, but parts of the tribe of Judah, lead by Judahs son Zara were also part of these "early leavers" by sea from Egypt ~1600 BC, which correlates timewise with your theory of the massive volcanic eruption at Thera.
I believe it was these seagoing Israelites who came to America BC and left such large traces, rather than the traditional Lost Tribes of Israel who did not escape from Assyria until a thousand years later, ~600 BC. Perhaps it was both?
Best be careful. There's a cabal of hyenas on FR who will accuse you of being a Morman for making claims like that.