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.
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But you're close: "Cato judged Carthage should be destroyed."
Your comment turned up just as Kate Bush's "Suspended in Gaffa" came on iTunes.
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Perfect. Thank you, music gods.
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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.
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I don't know about the Armenians, but here's the original paper. I'm hoping for further studies!
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There's a whole corner of the newly reorganized Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History devoted to DNA-tracking prehistoric populations; I discovered it when I was in New York City in June. It's pretty awesome.
if I could just remember the title.
Let me know if you do!
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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).
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Glad it makes you happy.