Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors

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dc.contributor.authorRingbauer, Harald
dc.contributor.authorSalman-Minkov, Ayelet
dc.contributor.authorRegev, Dalit
dc.contributor.authorOlalde, Iñigo
dc.contributor.authorPeled, Tomer
dc.contributor.authorSineo, Luca
dc.contributor.authorFalsone, Gioacchino
dc.contributor.authorvan Dommelen, Peter
dc.contributor.authorMittnik, Alissa
dc.contributor.authorLazaridis, Iosif
dc.contributor.authorPettener, Davide
dc.contributor.authorBofill, Maria
dc.contributor.authorMezquida, Ana
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Benjamí
dc.contributor.authorJiménez, Helena
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorVai, Stefania
dc.contributor.authorModi, Alessandra
dc.contributor.authorShaus, Arie
dc.contributor.authorCallan, Kim
dc.contributor.authorCurtis, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorKearns, Aisling
dc.contributor.authorLawson, Ann Marie
dc.contributor.authorMah, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorMicco, Adam
dc.contributor.authorOppenheimer, Jonas
dc.contributor.authorQiu, Lijun
dc.contributor.authorStewardson, Kristin
dc.contributor.authorWorkman, J. Noah
dc.contributor.authorMárquez-Grant, Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorSáez Romero, Antonio M.
dc.contributor.authorLavado Florido, María Luisa
dc.contributor.authorJiménez-Arenas, Juan Manuel
dc.contributor.authorToro Moyano, Isidro Jorge
dc.contributor.authorViguera, Enrique
dc.contributor.authorPadilla, José Suárez
dc.contributor.authorChamizo, Sonia López
dc.contributor.authorMarques-Bonet, Tomas
dc.contributor.authorLizano, Esther
dc.contributor.authorRiaza, Alicia Rodero
dc.contributor.authorOlivieri, Francesca
dc.contributor.authorToti, Pamela
dc.contributor.authorGiuliana, Valentina
dc.contributor.authorBarash, Alon
dc.contributor.authorCarmel, Liran
dc.contributor.authorBoaretto, Elisabetta
dc.contributor.authorFaerman, Marina
dc.contributor.authorLucci, Michaela
dc.contributor.authorLa Pastina, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorNava, Alessia
dc.contributor.authorGenchi, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorDel Vais, Carla
dc.contributor.authorLauria, Gabriele
dc.contributor.authorMeli, Francesca
dc.contributor.authorSconzo, Paola
dc.contributor.authorCatalano, Giulio
dc.contributor.authorCilli, Elisabetta
dc.contributor.authorFariselli, Anna Chiara
dc.contributor.authorFontani, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorLuiselli, Donata
dc.contributor.authorCulleton, Brendan J.
dc.contributor.authorMallick, Swapan
dc.contributor.authorRohland, Nadin
dc.contributor.authorNigro, Lorenzo
dc.contributor.authorCoppa, Alfredo
dc.contributor.authorCaramelli, David
dc.contributor.authorPinhasi, Ron
dc.contributor.authorLalueza-Fox, Carles
dc.contributor.authorGronau, Ilan
dc.contributor.authorReich, David
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-24T12:04:51Z
dc.date.available2025-04-24T12:04:51Z
dc.date.freetoread2025-04-24
dc.date.issued2025-04-23
dc.date.pubOnline2025-04-23
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dc.description.abstractThe maritime Phoenician civilization from the Levant transformed the entire Mediterranean during the first millennium bce1,2,3. However, the extent of human movement between the Levantine Phoenician homeland and Phoenician–Punic settlements in the central and western Mediterranean has been unclear in the absence of comprehensive ancient DNA studies. Here, we generated genome-wide data for 210 individuals, including 196 from 14 sites traditionally identified as Phoenician and Punic in the Levant, North Africa, Iberia, Sicily, Sardinia and Ibiza, and an early Iron Age individual from Algeria. Levantine Phoenicians made little genetic contribution to Punic settlements in the central and western Mediterranean between the sixth and second centuries bce, despite abundant archaeological evidence of cultural, historical, linguistic and religious links4. Instead, these inheritors of Levantine Phoenician culture derived most of their ancestry from a genetic profile similar to that of Sicily and the Aegean. Much of the remaining ancestry originated from North Africa, reflecting the growing influence of Carthage5. However, this was a minority contributor of ancestry in all of the sampled sites, including in Carthage itself. Different Punic sites across the central and western Mediterranean show similar patterns of high genetic diversity. We also detect genetic relationships across the Mediterranean, reflecting shared demographic processes that shaped the Punic world.
dc.description.journalNameNature
dc.format.extentpp. xx-xx
dc.identifier.citationRingbauer H, Salman-Minkov A, Regev D, et al., (2025) Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors. Nature, Available online 23 April 2024
dc.identifier.eissn1476-4687
dc.identifier.elementsID672863
dc.identifier.issn0028-0836
dc.identifier.issueNoahead-of-print
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08913-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23836
dc.identifier.volumeNoahead-of-print
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08913-3
dc.relation.isreferencedbyhttps://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/UPDESR
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectGeneral Science & Technology
dc.titlePunic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2025-03-18

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