THE GENETIC ORIGINS OF THE ANCIENT ISRAELITES ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE| #biblestories FYTube

Which populations in the Middle East are the most genetically similar to the ancient Israelites? The ancient Israelites were a Semitic people who fundamentally shaped the concept of monotheism, originating in the Levant during the Iron Age. Both the Jews and Samaritans claimed descent from them. In this video, we are going to conduct a DNA and historic analysis to understand who these ancient people were from a genetic perspective.
The sites of Abel Beth Mara and Megiddo have played a very important role in the archaeology of the Levant. Both of these sites are mentioned in the Bible and have been home to human habitation dating back to the Bronze Age. Two fossils found within these sites date back to when the historic Kingdom of Israel ruled, and on this basis, the archaeogenetics community has labeled these samples as being Israelite in origin. These samples, although similar, display genetic variants. Thus, from the very onset of this video, before we dive even deeper, we can ascertain that the Israelite DNA is not a monolith.
Over here, I’ve got a Stone Age ancestral breakdown of the average Iron Age Israelite. Interestingly, what we can see is around 30% of their ancestry is Nan-derived. The Nans were a Proto-agriculturalist culture from the Levant who lived approximately 15,000 years ago and who today form the highest genetic component of modern Southern Arabian populations. But if we look closer at this breakdown, what you’ll see is around 42% of their ancient ancestry is Anatolian Neolithic farmer-derived. The Anatolian Neolithic Farmers lived just north of the Nans around 9,000 years ago. They began to migrate into the Levant, and by mixing with the Nans, they formed a new genetic component known as Levant Neolithic farmer. Levant Neolithic farmer forms a substantial portion of the ancient Israelite genome at around 55% and is a characteristic genetic signal found throughout parts of the ancient Fertile Crescent.
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