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Introduction to Ancient Canaan and the Canaanites
Muh ancestors:
This is what my Israeli Jewish friend told me of my genetic results from Anthrogenica:
Distance to: Moody_scaled
0.03818439 Levant_LBN_MA_NE_SI-45
0.03949403 Levant_LBN_Roman_QED-2
0.04607430 Levant_LBN_Roman_QED-7
0.04789017 Levant_Canaanite_MBA_ERS1790733
0.04793320 Levant_ISR_Ashkelon_IA1_ASH066
0.04833605 Levant_Canaanite_MBA_ERS1790732
0.04866404 Levant_ISR_Ashkelon_IA2_ASH8
0.04899878 Levant_LBN_Roman_QED-12
0.05057932 Levant_LBN_Roman_QED-4
0.05060990 Levant_LBN_MA_NE_SI-42
0.05111293 Levant_Canaanite_MBA_ERS1790730
0.05313171 Levant_ISR_Ashkelon_LBA_ASH34
0.05491630 Levant_LBN_MA_NE_SI-38
0.05588090 Levant_Canaanite_MBA_ERS1790731
0.05948741 Levant_LBN_MA_NE_SI-44
0.06014275 Anatolia_Ovaoren_EBA_MA2210
0.06124604 Levant_ISR_MLBA_I2062
0.06192875 IND_Roopkund_B_o_I6935
0.06259783 Levant_Canaanite_MBA_ERS1790729
0.06426490 Levant_ISR_Ashkelon_LBA_ASH29
0.06427419 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_C_I4351
0.06454854 England_Roman_Near_Eastern_o_3DT26
0.06614519 Levant_ISR_Ashkelon_IA2_ASH087
0.06650608 Levant_ISR_Ashkelon_LBA_ASH33
0.06742460 ITA_Collegno_MA_o1_CL25
0.06768574 Anatolia_Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA_MA2200
0.06824161 Levant_ISR_Ashkelon_IA2_ASH135
0.06918881 ITA_Collegno_MA_o1_CL38
0.06925922 Anatolia_Ovaoren_EBA_MA2212
0.07003073 ITA_Collegno_MA_o1_CL30
0.07078996 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_C_I4241
0.07112701 IND_Roopkund_B_I3345
0.07167942 Anatolia_Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA_low_res_MA2208
0.07197118 Levant_ISR_Ashkelon_IA1_ASH2-3
0.07273463 IND_Roopkund_B_I2869
0.07290944 Anatolia_Ovaoren_EBA_MA2213
0.07325378 Anatolia_Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA_MA2203
0.07336901 IRN_Hajji_Firuz_C_I2323
0.07416767 ARM_Areni_C_I1632
0.07457892 Iberia_Southeast_c.10-16CE_I3808
0.07564661 Anatolia_Barcin_C_I1584
0.07573764 Anatolia_Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA_MA2206
0.07604711 IND_Roopkund_B_I6937
0.07702045 Anatolia_Kaman-Kalehoyuk_MLBA_MA2205
0.07780496 Ostrogothic_Crimea_ACD_KER_1
0.07851999 IND_Roopkund_B_I3405
0.07905027 Iberia_Southeast_c.10-16CE_I7499
0.07964302 IRN_Hasanlu_IA_F38
0.08062811 Anatolia_Isparta_EBA_I2683
0.08092486 Anatolia_Isparta_EBA_I2499His analysis on whether ot not Palestinians derive their ancestry from other Canaanites:"The Galilee was mostly Jewish territory (whether Galilean Jewry was descended from Judaised Israelites or settlers from Judea is a matter of debate, archeologists tend to favour the latter scenario), the coastal areas however were heavily settled by Phoenicians since the early Iron Age and therefore the areas from which your family hails had a mixed Phoenician-Israelite population (with the Phoenician component being the most prominent, the relations between the two were actually quite cordial). This is reflected in your results, as the ancient individuals closest to you are from neighbouring Sidon (whether Medieval, Roman-era or MBA Canaanite), even more tellingly you are closer to the IA2 (and one of the IA1) Ashkelonites than to the MLBA individual from Tel Shadud which is important since they spoke a coastal Canaanite dialect very similar to Old Byblian while the latter is probably ancestral to the Proto-Israelites in some way.
So within the Canaanite continuum, your results would place you firmly on the coast which is essentially Phoenician territory. In other words, you owe the majority of your ancestry to both the Phoenicians and the Israelites."
Whether you're Jewish(western and eastern) or Levantine Arab(Muslims, Christians and Druze), we're all descendants from the ancient Canaanites, and we're cousins at the end of the day"Very unlikely, to say the least. The Edomites originated in the Aravah where the kingdom of Edom was located, they migrated northwards and filled the vacuum left by the Babylonian exile by settling in Southern Judea around Hebron (which subsequently came to be known as Idumea):
The Idumeans were forcibly converted to Judaism by the Hasmonean kings. The Edomite ancestry present in Palestinian Arabs today, most of whom are of rural or urban background, is going to be from converts to Judaism (and that source also contributed to Western Jews).
The few who managed to cling to their traditions were those who remained out of reach in the desert, and these are more likely to have contributed to the Bedouins' ancestry. The same can be said for the Moabites and probably even the Ammonites to a large extent, both of whom were heavily Arameanised by the Persian period and were eventually assimilated by early Arabs such as the Qedarites and the Nabateans.
The sad truth is that whatever Canaanite ancestry Palestinian Arabs have is in a vast majority of cases derived from the region's Jewish and Samaritan inhabitants, the few exceptions being coastal areas where a mixed Phoenician-Israelite population existed. What must be kept in mind is that, after the Samaritans, the Edomites, Moabites and Ammonites were the Jews' closest relatives. Despite the atrocious relations between them (familiarity breeds contempt, it's no coincidence if Jordan's national mythmaking attempts revolve around the Moabites), they were remarkably similar from a religious, cultural and linguistic standpoint and they were all keenly aware of this (I might talk about this in detail in another thread, as I've been reading on this matter as of late)... And that's the ultimate irony, really, even if they owe their Canaanite ancestry to non-Israelites (which is all but certain), in the end we are dealing with populations that were so close to the Jews that most of us here would have a hard time telling the difference to begin with."
https://anthrogenica.com/showthread....lestine/page24
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