See Haaretz > In First, Archaeologists Extract DNA of Ancient Israelites
The article is reasonably long, reasonably well written, and reasonably punctuated with important caveats. Nevertheless, for those interested in the area and the relevant sciences, it is intriguing stuff. Even so, the bottom line is ...
But, bit by bit and bone by bone, the data is coming.
The article is reasonably long, reasonably well written, and reasonably punctuated with important caveats. Nevertheless, for those interested in the area and the relevant sciences, it is intriguing stuff. Even so, the bottom line is ...
Much more data and research are needed to understand how significative these results are, whether they truly represent the ancestry of the region’s population at the time – and what they mean for our understanding of the broader story of the emergence of ancient Israel. [ibid]
But, bit by bit and bone by bone, the data is coming.