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https://greekreporter.com/2025/05/27/israelites-indigenous-canaan-descended-steppes-study-claims/

A new study led by independent researcher Johan Oosthuizen
is challenging long-standing beliefs about the origins of
the ancient Israelites. Contrary to the dominant view that
Israelites were indigenous to Canaan, the research points
to their ancestry tracing back to the steppes of Europe.

The findings, based on genetic, historical, and cultural
data, suggest that the Israelites were not originally from
the Levant. Instead, they likely arrived there from regions
linked to ancient steppe cultures in northern and western
Europe.

Based on the study, this migration began as early as 1750 BC,
with the most significant genetic impact observed around 960 BC.

Researchers examined DNA patterns from ancient populations
in Lebanon, comparing samples from different periods. They
identified a marked rise in genetic markers linked to steppe
ancestry beginning in the Iron Age. These markers, especially
found in Y-DNA, show traits common among European steppe
populations but rare among earlier Canaanite groups.

This cannot be explained by known invasions, such as those
by the Assyrians, Persians, or Greeks. These groups
arrived later

. . .

So, is Israel really their homeland, or like Hungary
or Austria ???

VERY old evidence - pottery shards, megaliths and such -
suggest proto-civ in southern Turkey maybe 15,000 years
old. Then they split up. Some went north following the
receding glaciers, others south, a few went southwest
into the Levant. The ones in the south became the
Sumerians and were smart enough to start making
durable records. However there's no reason SOME who
went north could not have drifted south again into
the area around future Babylon.

The prob with DNA is that while it can identify
persistent genetic/cultural association it's
harder to prove where these various groups WENT
over long history. The traces may be faint if
the culture was super tight-ass about breeding
with "others".

Sumerian history records an
influx of "the black-headed people" very early
on. Those MAY have been 'black' Africans, or
people from the east ... proto-Persians and
maybe even some Indians. Could ALSO have been
some of the north-drifters returning Thing is,
it's all mixed up and mixed again by now. Fewer
unique genes to trace back to distant locales.

THE human "homeland" ... a strip of North Africa
and East Africa ... mixed periods of isolation
and then gleeful interbreeding. Lighter-skinned
people, throw in some Neanderthals too. We're
all hybrids of hybrids of hybrids.

Sorry for not posting a pro/anti-Trump rant ...
try to get over it.

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