A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean

A new study showing North African genetic expansion in the early Iron Age in line with some of my thinking around past research outlined in this post.

Was interesting to see again that endogamy popped up, this time in the Iron Age North African samples.

Given all of this and what’s allegedly going on in the very early Iron Age, I’d be very curious to see what we’d find looking at Phonecian samples from around 1200-1100 BCE in the Levant, and wouldn’t be surprised at all to see North African admixture.