>Abstract: The Canaanites inhabited the Levant region during the Bronze Age and established a culture which became influential in the Near East and beyond. However, the Canaanites, unlike most other ancient Near Easterners of this period, left few surviving textual records and thus their origin and relationship to ancient and present-day populations remain unclear. In this study, we sequenced five whole-genomes from ~3,700-year-old individuals from the city of Sidon, a major Canaanite city-state on the Eastern Mediterranean coast. We also sequenced the genomes of 99 individuals from present-day Lebanon to catalogue modern Levantine genetic diversity. We find that a Bronze Age Canaanite-related ancestry was widespread in the region, shared among urban populations inhabiting the coast (Sidon) and inland populations (Jordan) who likely lived in farming societies or were pastoral nomads. This Canaanite-related ancestry derived from mixture between local Neolithic populations and eastern migrants genetically related to Chalcolithic Iranians. We estimate, using linkage-disequilibrium decay patterns, that admixture occurred 6,600-3,550 years ago, coinciding with massive population movements in the mid-Holocene triggered by aridification ~4,200 years ago. We show that present-day Lebanese derive most of their ancestry from a Canaanite-related population, which therefore implies substantial genetic continuity in the Levant since at least the Bronze Age. In addition, we find Eurasian ancestry in the Lebanese not present in Bronze Age or earlier Levantines. We estimate this Eurasian ancestry arrived in the Levant around 3,750-2,170 years ago during a period of successive conquests by distant populations such as the Persians and Macedonians.
>However, the present-day Lebanese, in addition to their Levant_N and Iranian ancestry, have a component (11-22%) related to EHG and Steppe populations not found in Bronze Age populations (Figure 3A). We confirm the presence of this ancestry in the Lebanese by testing f4(Sidon_BA, Lebanese; Ancient Eurasian, Chimpanzee) and find that Eurasian hunter-gatherers and Steppe populations share more alleles with the Lebanese than with Sidon_BA (Figure 3B). We next tested a model of the present-day Lebanese as a mixture of Sidon_BA and any other ancient Eurasian population using qpAdm. We found that the Lebanese can be best modelled as Sidon_BA 93±1.6% and a Steppe Bronze Age population 7±1.6% (Figure 3C; Table S6).
Lebanon got BLEACHED
Charles Lee
Can I have the original plot for fuck's SAKE?
Or a decent size
Jeremiah Martin
>Niggers What the hell do they have to do with the Levant? Why do autists keep pretending that YouTube Afrocentrist conspiracy theorists are relevant?
Jacob Perez
>t.achmed
Owen Reyes
Wait, the gray points are ancient Phoenicians?
Aiden Morris
Canaanites.
Easton Fisher
Reminder that the Israelites were just a subset of Canaanites and they all worshipped Moloch then made up a story about invading and slaughtering the Canaanites even though that's who they were. Hebrew is literally a Canaanite language.
Jews are the true indigenous people yet they lied and said they weren't.... That was probably stupid of them.
Jose Miller
First of all, its name in Phoenician was Melqart, also he didn't look like your image but was depicted a humanoid figure.
William Myers
Moloch isn't a god, it's just the name of the sacrifice. mlk sacrifices were done in the name of ba'al and yhwh, which is seen in Jeremiah 32:35: >And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Lincoln Mitchell
So much for Paleniggers going We Wuz Hebrews.
Xavier Jones
No you fool, Christians called Africans Canaanites to excuse racial abuse. And some still do to this day
Ethan Davis
Solomon and the Baal/Moloch worhsipping Phoenicians were buddies. They built his Temples. He worshipped their molochs.
Three masonic grand masters are: Solomon, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff.
The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents
You can read about Solomon, founder of Anicent Freemasonry, being a complete and total demon worshiper and at the same time controlling these demons with the Name of God.
You can read about Solomon, founder of Anicent Freemasonry, being a complete and total demon worshiper and at the same time controlling these demons with the Name of God. As an adult, Solomon's shiksa sluts turned his heart after other gods
In the Bible Moses and all the Hebrews are the decendants of Abraham, who comes from Western Sumeria, so IDK why fedoras think the Bible is btfo by them being of levantine/mesopotamian stock.
Jacob King
>so IDK why fedoras think the Bible is btfo by them being of levantine/mesopotamian stock why are you conflating the levant and mesopotamia? the point is they're nor mesopotamian. the whole reason for the origin story of Ur is because arameans inhabited sumeria during the iron age (but not before), specifically chaldeans, who guess what, were the ruling dynasty of Babylon when the Jews went into exile. literally just we wuzzing
Grayson Watson
Except the Assyrians were the closest to the sample.
David Price
what....
Asher Ross
so... we wuz Phoenicians?
David Ortiz
Yeah.
Jonathan Sullivan
>which therefore implies substantial genetic continuity in the Levant since at least the Bronze Age
Will this finally silence we wuzzers?
Mason Price
>pol lose How does it lose?
Thomas Brown
It discredits the Palestinians being the closest to the Biblical inhabitants. And discredits talk that modern Israelis aren't largely descended from Hebrews. Free Palestine fags also lose.
Ryder Barnes
Well, we kind of have known that for a while. Although there are some Palestinians who descend from converts, to say even a significant percentage of them is pretty ridiculous. If they have the last name al-yehudi or something they definitely are.
That being said, I don't think whomever the biblical inhabitants are matter that much other than to shut up the people pretending that they are somehow indigenous and thus deserve the land more than the Israelis who clearly have a closer link.
