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Topic: DNA from antique north Africa (or is it?)

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- Zimriel
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OP - May 26, 2016, 11:48 PM

Some of us regulars have north African ancestry (I've 0.7%, very low). So this looked like an interesting article:
A European Mitochondrial Haplotype Identified in Ancient Phoenician Remains from Carthage, North Africa. Except that this fellow was *not* natively Berber.

"Mitochondrial" means "maternal-line". The dead Carthaginian's mother was U5b2c1. There's a lot of U5 in Europe and North Africa; but U5b2 is usually European. This U5b2c1 subset of it is associated with Stone Age northern Spain (La Braña-Arintero: Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European), and - today - with Portugal.

Perhaps his mum was Iberian. One ancestress wandered (not far) west, the other one took ship east.
- zeca
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Reply #1 - May 27, 2016, 08:22 AM

The Phoenicians had colonies in Spain as well so this shouldn't be too unexpected. Here's a post from Caitlin Green on the presence of North Africans in Britain which may be more surprising:

A note on the evidence for African migrants in Britain from the Bronze Age to the medieval period

Also:

Thanet, Tanit and the Phoenicians: Place-Names, Archaeology and Pre-Roman Trading Settlements in Eastern Kent?

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