sovay: (Rotwang)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2008-11-06 01:10 am

Cato Carthaginem delendam censuit

Something that makes me happy and is not Barack Obama's election: Phoenician DNA. (Though I file traceable ancient lineages under extremely cool multiculturalism, so I suppose a line between the two could be drawn.) Now I want to know who's inherited the Etruscans.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Alas, one year of Latin when I was in ninth grade does not let me decipher your header, nor does knowing the phrase Carthago delenda est. It's very cool about the Phoenician DNA, though!

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Your comment turned up just as Kate Bush's "Suspended in Gaffa" came on iTunes.

Perfect. Thank you, music gods.

[identity profile] norilanabooks.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
This is fascinating.

I've always thought there were some connections between ancient Phoenician and Armenian (which naturally makes it personally interesting, since Armenians seem to be on a branch of their own out there, both linguistic and genetic), wish this study gave more ethnic info.

[identity profile] madwriter.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm still on my "Lets figure out prehistoric migrations with DNA" kick, but am slowly getting into more recent times with things like this article. Not long ago I also saw a book about a DNA survey of the British Isles which looked quite good and set me to yearning for it...if I could just remember the title.

[identity profile] madwriter.livejournal.com 2008-12-01 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
It was one of these two:

The Origins of the British, by Stephen Oppenheimer (http://www.amazon.com/Origins-British-Stephen-Oppenheimer/dp/1845294823/ref=pd_sim_b_6/177-3281845-8440662)

or

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland, by Bryan Sykes (http://www.amazon.com/Saxons-Vikings-Celts-Genetic-Britain/dp/0393330753/ref=pd_sim_b_2/177-3281845-8440662).

At any rate, Oppenheimer also published an essay a couple of years back that is (as far as I can tell) an abridged version of his book:

Myths of British Ancestry (http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7817).

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting.

Glad it makes you happy.