New Find on Ancient Phoenicians

[umsami]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0529/Ancient-Phoenician-DNA-suggests-a-new-model-of-human-migration

 

“Some of [the hunter-gatherers’] lineages may have persisted longer in the far south of the Iberian Peninsula and on off-shore islands and were then transported to the melting pot of Carthage in North Africa [through] Phoenician and Punic trade networks," said Lisa Matisoo-Smith, the study’s co-leader and a biological anthropologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand, said in a statement.

[CelticHaiku]

Interesting. 

[maize]

It is a mitochondrial DNA haplogroup they are discussing, so tracing the direct maternal line.

 

Interesting!

[Serenade]

Thanks for sharing.