Phoenicians and Canaanites are basically the same group—”Phoenician” is just the Greek name for that population. The Philistines were immigrants (ca. 1200 BC/BCE/vuZ/pne), apparently from somewhere in the Aegean (they are one of the so-called “Sea Peoples” mentioned in a couple of Egyptian texts from about that time) but assimilated and lost their language. Herodotus mentions a “Syria Palaistine” in what seems to be the area of the Philistine city-states. Somehow the memory of the Philistines had continued to be associated with that region or else the Romans probably wouldn’t have used the name “Palaestina.”
“Phoenicians and Canaanites are basically the same group”
Did they ever run DNA testing yet to figure these races out? According to the Bible, the Caananites [Children of Cain] built a city in Jericho [world’s first] and taught the world metalworking. An major ‘prehistoric’ foundry was found in that general area. [fuzzy memory alert reg. all of this — cuniform was in its infancy for stock taking records during the time of that foundry.]