A sampling from the Tomb 351 Monte Sirai. Michele Guirguis
Posted on 01/18/2018 5:56:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
E. Matisoo-Smith from the University of Otago, New Zealand and Pierre Zalloua from the Lebanese American University, Beirut, and colleagues... looked at mitochondrial genomes... to investigate how Phoenicians integrated with the Sardinian communities they settled. The researchers found 14 new ancient mitogenome sequences from pre-Phoenician (~1800 BCE) and Phoenician (~700-400 BCE) samples from Lebanon and Sardinia and then compared these with 87 new complete mitogenomes from modern Lebanese and 21 recently published pre-Phoenician ancient mitogenomes from Sardinia.
The researchers found evidence of continuity of some lineages of indigenous Sardinians after Phoenician settlement, which suggests that there was integration between Sardinians and Phoenicians in Monte Sirai. They also discovered evidence of new, unique mitochondrial lineages in Sardinia and Lebanon, which may indicate the movement of women from sites in the Near East or North Africa to Sardinia and the movement of European women to Lebanon...
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A sampling from the Tomb 351 Monte Sirai. Michele Guirguis
Must be they've found ways to determine whether people were moved as captives or other chattels from their DNA, it's quite a breakthrough. /s
I would not be surprised to learn that the Phoenicians settled all around the Mediterranean especially Sicily and Libya.
Of course it has always been known they came from the area of Lebanon. Tyre and Sidon for example.
The spread out, including Carthage of course, which rose to prominence and dominance over the home cities, eventually fighting over and conquering most of Sicily at the expense of other Phoenicians, and Greeks and whomever else was around. They had good trade relations with other Greek and Etruscan cities in the western Med, colonized along the western Atlantic coast of Africa, and circumnavigated Africa for the Egyptian pharaoh, starting in the Gulf of Suez (probably) and sailing clockwise, winding up at Gibraltar and eventually the Nile ports.
People from quite a few nations visited Sardinia.
because it’s in the way. Same with Sicily my grandparents home
Thanks. Yes. It’s showing in many DNA test reports to various extents for people descended from countries far from Sardinia. For some odd reason, in people of nearly 100% northwestern European genes, Sardinia is showing 0.3%. Looks like a possible anomaly result from some kind of skewing on the part of a company. Maybe you know something about this, or maybe someone else here does.
Etruscan settlement found in Sardinia for first time [tr]
ANSAmed | January 8, 2018 | unattributed
Posted on 01/21/2018 2:55:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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