Most Phoenicians did not come from Canaan

[Jon Freitag]

Study results from Nature via Science, Phoenicians not from Canaan.

[Imperial Dave]

Saw that Jon...very interesting, thanks

[Nick Harbud]

Unsurprising.  I mean, I suspect most Americans are not from the British Isles.

 

[DBS]

Not so surprising, given that there are so many centuries between first voyages and likely trading post establishment, and hard DNA evidence.  I also wonder whether "Canaan" is too specific within the Levant.  Herodotos of course reckoned the Phoenicians originally came from south-west Arabia...

[Ian61]

This doesn't surprise me at all. Port cities have always been cultural melting pots.

[Duncan Head]

So it means Western Phoenicians, or Punics. The original study is headlined "Punic people...", and Science.org has changed this into something more than a bit misleading. At first it had me wondering where on earth the people of Tyre and Sidon did come from.