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How Jewish ancestry traces back to ancient Canaan DNA study a landmark 2020 study published in Cell, led by researchers from Harvard (David Reich), Hebrew University (Liran Carmel), and Tel Aviv University (Israel Finkelstein), sequenced 93 ancient skeletons from braden shewmake Bronze Age sites including Megiddo, Hazor, Abel Beth Maacah, Yehud, and Baq'ah. The finding: most modern Jewish and Levantine Arab populations derive more than half their ancestry from the ancient Canaanites.

What the DNA shows the Canaanites were genetically homogeneous across independent city-states, and themselves formed from a mix of earlier Levantine Neolithic populations and migrants related to boston river - millonarios Chalcolithic Iranians from the Zagros/Caucasus. Ancestry proportions vary by Jewish community Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi and others show different levels of Levantine ancestry plus admixture from host populations. An unbroken genetic thread across three millennia.

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