>> "Populations in the Southern Levant during the Bronze Age were not static,"   
   >> says Liran Carmel of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Rather,   
   >> we observe evidence for the movement of people over long periods of time   
   >> from the northeast of the Ancient Near East, including modern   
   >> Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, into the Southern Levant region.   
   >   
   >Okay. Nothing so much as mentions Egyptians. Nothing excludes any   
   >genetic relationship with Egyptians.   
   >   
   >> Sorry bub, nary an egyptian in sight   
   >   
   >If you mean that they don't address it at all -- don't exclude any Egyptian   
   >genetic contribution -- you're right.   
   >   
   >But you don't mean that. You lack reading comprehension never mind a   
   >cursory understanding of the topic.   
   >   
   >NOTE:  A movement of people will be seen in the archaeology, the   
   >remnants of their culture. It is something that would have been obvious   
   >long before genetic testing became available.   
      
   Movement of material culture items is not an absolute confirmation of   
   population movement, nor of the exchange of genetic material.  That needs   
   to be confirmed from genomic evidence.  The genomic evidence as presented   
   for example in the research in question.   
      
   Not to forget the oppisite side of the coin, egyptian genomic show movement   
   into egypt, not into the levant.   
      
   Any hypotheses as you have proposed; remain at that stage of speculation in   
   the absence of evidence to the contrary.   
      
   "Maybe" ideas are a dime the dozen, then real science begins.   
      
   It's science son, science I say.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)