[Lera]

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DNA discovery identifies living descendants of Biblical Canaanites

[yarddog]

I wonder if they have compared DNA from current Lebanese with Libyans. They should be similar.

Of course North Africa has had numerous invaders since the Phoenicians.

[GOP Poet]

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[SkyDancer]

My DNA test showed I was 18% Sub-Sahara where Jews lived and where Noah came from. And yes, I’m Jewish.

[DoughtyOne]

Canaanites once lived in what we now recognize as Israel, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The remains of the five ancient Canaanites studied as part of the DNA research were recovered in the modern-day Lebanese city of Sidon.

Who could have seen that coming?

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... Arabs on the West Bank and in Gaza are the direct descendants of the Canaanites. You know that's next.

This will be a basis for the Arabs on the West Bank and in Gaza demanding Israel vacate it's land.

[Beowulf9]

Pretty interesting. But the Canaanites were supposed to be large and fierce. When I think of the Lebanese I think of Danny Thomas.

[hadaclueonce]

Send me five bucks and a cheek swab and I will trace you back to Adam.

[firebrand]

I’m sure these researchers used the best methods, but we should be wary of drugstore DNA kits:

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Where do people come up with this nonsense that the Israelites completely wiped out the Canaanites? They were to be driven out a little at time, some made treaties with the Israelites, but they were never wiped out.
Even at the time of David there were still original Canaanites in the land.

[fwdude]

Let me say it first: UNEXPECTED?

[njslim]

Israelites were too few in numbers to totally displace
the original inhabitants

The Philistines and Canaanites had chariots which Israelite
did not have

Israelites stuck to the hill country leaving Canaanites
and Philistines in control of the coastal plains