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The Bronze Age Canaanites lived between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago in the region cheap Canada Goose now encompassed by Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.

Now, in research published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics, an international team of geneticists has mapped the mass migrations that occurred in this tumultuous region by “reading” the DNA of the region’s canada goose clearance sale ancient and modern inhabitants.

canada goose outlet canada “What is exciting Canada Goose Online was that we can see the genetic continuity between the Bronze Age population and the present day populations,” said Dr Marc Haber of canada goose uk shop the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK. canada goose outlet canada

canada goose outlet toronto address The study found that over 90 per cent of the ancestry of modern day people from Lebanon was derived from the Canaanites. canada goose outlet toronto address

canada goose outlet in new york “We know from history that after the Bronze Age, the canada goose region was under a lot of expansions and conquests, and you would expect that those would have brought new gene flow, but in the DNA we see that the present day population did not change too much from the Bronze Age population.” canada goose outlet in new york

Analysis of genetic traits found the ancient Canaanites would have looked very similar to today’s Lebanese population, except perhaps a little darker in skin tone.

canada goose outlet montreal Extracting DNA from ancient skullsTo track the changes over time, Dr Haber and his colleagues Canada Goose Outlet compared five whole genomes recovered from human remains found in the area of the ancient Lebanese city of Sidon, with the genomes of http://www.canadagoosecanadaoutlet.com 99 Lebanese living canada goose store in the region today. canada goose outlet montreal

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Depending on the environment, the DNA in bones decays at different rates and the Lebanese coast is both warm and moist, which isn’t good for preservation.

To extract enough DNA for Canada Goose sale the study, the researchers targeted bone found at the base of the human skull, which is extra dense and was very recently identified as a good source of DNA long after it has decayed elsewhere in the skeleton.

DNA may help solve Phoenician mysteryAlan buy canada goose jacket Cooper of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA said the study was hard evidence that God’s biblical command, as described in the Book of Deuteronomy, to “totally destroy” the Canaanites, was not carried out.

canada goose outlet uk sale “Clearly the Bible’s wrong in the sense of the Canaanites being smitten, they were clearly not smit too well,” Professor Cooper, who was not involved in the research, said. canada goose outlet uk sale

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Professor Cooper said the new study provides valuable insight into when shifts in the population occurred in the Near East in ancient times.

Genomic changes occurred between 6,600 canada goose factory sale and 3,550 years ago with input from migrants from the east genetically related to Copper Age Iranians and again between 3,750 and 2,170 years ago with the introduction of Eurasian ancestry.

Professor Cooper said the genetic continuity Dr Haber and his colleagues found also helps to solve the mystery of the Phoenicians.

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“They were all over the Mediterranean but we couldn’t find any skeletons to gather their DNA from, and there didn’t seem to be any natural cultural Canada Goose Jackets descendants.

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