NEW three papers with ancient Levant genomes

[Pine]

As are most Christian Lebanese or most Baháʼí Iranians in the west, for example...



Partially because ancient Levant is ancient (of the past), and not modern, Levant.

I mean are there ANY cultures in modern Levant that resemble ancient Levant?

Samaritans would be the closest, if you had to choose. And closest to them are diasporic Jews.

[Pine]

Ashkenazi Jews (Russian Jew sample) also don't even derive half their ancestry from Canaanites. No, they're not even close to being natives of the Levant. I don't know why anybody who isn't a Jew would even still be pushing that.

You're going by a model by which they score 48% and Palestinians score 58%. This is amazingly convincing: those with 48% are foreigners and those with 58% are natives. Yeah, only a Jew would push that 48% is comparable to 58%. Get em, partner.

[happycow]

Cool

[Pine]

Since it's a Jewish holiday, I'll gift you guys something you missed (simply didn't read):

From Haber 2020:

We found that the Lebanese Iron Age population can be modeled as a mixture of the local Bronze Age population (63%–88%) and a population related to ancient Anatolians or ancient South-Eastern Europeans (12%–37%)

If this applies to ancient Judeans, then expect the Judean% in Jews to skyrocket. And if this kinda pattern continued into the common era, then Western Jews may be overwhelmingly Judean.

[FinalFlash]

You're going by a model by which they score 48% and Palestinians score 58%. This is amazingly convincing: those with 48% are foreigners and those with 58% are natives. Yeah, only a Jew would push that 48% is comparable to 58%. Get em, partner.

To be fair, it's not the 48% that most people care about, it's the other 52% that largely isn't shared with other Levantine populations.

[Adamm]

What do you guys think? Accurate?

[Pine]

@Pine, can you share your HarappaWorld components?

Population
S-Indian -
Baloch 8.83 Pct
Caucasian 33.71 Pct
NE-Euro 12.87 Pct
SE-Asian 2.24 Pct
Siberian 0.28 Pct
NE-Asian -
Papuan 0.76 Pct
American 0.06 Pct
Beringian 0.27 Pct
Mediterranean 23.52 Pct
SW-Asian 16.13 Pct
San 0.17 Pct
E-African 0.17 Pct
Pygmy 0.54 Pct
W-African 0.45 Pct

[Adamm]

What do you guys think? Accurate?

[Pine]

To be fair, it's not the 48% that most people care about, it's the other 52% that largely isn't shared with other Levantine populations.

Go look at the model. Much more than 48% is shared.

[Kamal900]

Go look at the model. Much more than 48% is shared.

Well, it depends on the Ashkenazi group itself where Russian Jews are the most Northern of European shifted Ashkenazi Jews while the Sephardic Jews are around the same percentage as Palestinian Muslims of their Canaanite ancestry, though the difference in percentages is small and not at all large.