People in the Levant are originally from Europe, new study says

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http://stepfeed.com/people-in-the-le...504;c=stepfeed

Levantines did not migrate directly from Africa, as previously thought.

2017/01/11 @ 17:12
Jason Lemon
By Jason Lemon Deputy Managing Editor

A new genetic study has revealed that the modern day population of the Levant migrated from Europe around 12,000 years ago, and not - as originally thought - from Africa with the rest of the Homo Sapiens.

Pierre Zalloua, a geneticist and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Lebanese American University, led the study.

"We now know that we, in the Levant, migrated through the north around 12,000 years ago, and not directly from Africa," Zalloua said.

The study also revealed that the Levant is one of few population groups in the world that have a distinct genetic signature--a combination of genes that allows geneticists to identify a group. This is because the Ice Age left them in a state of isolation for some 25,000 years.

Communities in the Arabian Peninsula and the Black Sea region also developed distinct genetic signatures.

During the Ice Age, hunter-gatherer tribes were forced to live in restricted areas with habitable conditions. These groups remained disconnected from other societies in the world for thousands of years and then began migrating after the ice melted.

"We plotted our data on a map together with climate and archaeological evidence and it all made sense," he said.

Researchers from New Zealand’s University of Otago, Saint Joseph University in Lebanon, and the technology company IBM worked with Zalloua to collect and study the new genetic data.


You can read the full study in http://www.nature.com/articles/srep40338

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Elias?

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Not surprising. The early Phoenicians as well as Sumerians emigrated from the Aegean to the middle east.

Sumerians themselves said that they came with boats from the Aegean and anthropologists who have studies their skulls confirm this. The first Phoenicians were Greeks from Crete who went to the Mddle East taking with them the alphabet which was already in use in Greece.

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Not surprising. The early Phoenicians as well as Sumerians emigrated from the Aegean to the middle east.

Sumerians themselves said that they came with boats from the Aegean and anthropologists who have studies their skulls confirm this. The first Phoenicians were Greeks from Crete who went to the Mddle East taking with them the alphabet which was already in use in Greece.

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The first Phoenicians were Greeks from Crete who went to the Middle East taking with them the alphabet which was already in use in Greece.

But according to Herodotus:

"The Phoenicians who came with Cadmus . . . introduced into Greece, after their settlement in the country, a number of accomplishments, of which the most important was writing, an art till then, I think, unknown to the Greeks.”

“From the shape of the letters, it is clear that the Greeks adopted the alphabet the Phoenician script, mostly like during the late 9th century BCE. In fact, Greek historian Herotodus, who lived during the 5th century BCE, called the Greek letters "phoinikeia grammata" (φοινικήια γράμματα), which means Phoenician letters”.

http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html

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This may partially explain the genetic similarity to the people of Sicily as well as migration the other way. I always believed that it could not be explained just by Phoenicians or Neolithic Anatolian migration.