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|    Re: Who were the Canaanites? New insight    |
|    05 Jun 20 21:46:52    |
      >> Movement of material culture items is not an absolute confirmation of       >> population movement, nor of the exchange of genetic material.       >       >Show us that material culture. If you read for content you might notice       >that they never mention it. They make it clear that the conclusions are       >based solely on the interpretation of DNA evidence.              Smile, you evoked archaeoalogy and it as evidence of population movement       assuming one gets one with the other willy nilly.              Another uninformed "maybe" speculative notion not supported by the facts in       the context at hand.              In science the answers one gets depend on the       questions asked.>       >       In this case the only questions were related to genetic material, not       material cultural evidence.              One would not then expect to be addressing questions of archaeology, no?              The archaeology of the time and location has been extensively studied, but       such material does not inform us about genetics, the very failure of your       original speculative point.              Sorry bub, you ain't gonna get extensive egyptian genetics showing up in       the population in question given the results. Yourr original speculation       fails to be confirmed by the evidence of this research.              It's science son, science I say.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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