[HN Gopher] Ancient DNA Unveils the Cosmopolitan Heart of the Ph...
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       Ancient DNA Unveils the Cosmopolitan Heart of the Phoenician-Punic
       Civilization
        
       Author : speckx
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2025-05-01 20:19 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Avicebron wrote:
       | This is such a weird article
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       | It's like they started with this sentence:
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       | > this diversity challenges biblical narratives linking
       | Phoenician identity solely to Canaanite origins
       | 
       | Because they didn't like this:
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       | > Scholars once pictured waves of Levantine settlers carrying
       | their culture--language, religion, and the world's first alphabet
       | --westward.
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       | And worked backwards to find a time and place in history where
       | that was scientifically supported. (2 centuries after the
       | founding of a colony on the other side of the known (to them)
       | world)
       | 
       | and then kind of just acknowledge at the end:
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       | > the Punic world thrived on collaboration, weaving local
       | traditions with Phoenician innovations. The alphabet, a gift to
       | modern writing, spread not through Levantine settlers but because
       | diverse communities embraced and adapted it
       | 
       | which basically negates the premise because the main point it was
       | trying to counter:
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       | > with Phoenician innovations. The alphabet, a gift to modern
       | writing, spread
       | 
       | is openly acknowledged as being the important bit
       | 
       | EDIT: Carthage was founded 800ish BC, so 200ish years, doesn't
       | change much
        
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