The PCA shows that:
- Bronze Age and Iron Age Sidon fitted within the Egyptian & Bedouin cluster.
- In contrast, Iron Age Beirut was much closer to Palestinian & Jordanian cluster. So there were major genetic differences between two Lebanese cities only 40 km apart!
- Medieval and Modern Lebanese fit either within the Palestinian + Jordanian cluster, or are shifted toward Turkish Jews (presumably the Turkish-Caucasian component that came with the Ottoman occupation).
As for the presumed origin of the Sea Peoples, based on the mixture proportions in the paper the best matches are Anatolians (37%) and Mycenaeans (23%). Western Anatolia seems like a reasonable candidate. I wrote back in 2009 in my R1b history that "the Indo-Europeans from the Black Sea shores are excellent candidates for being the mysterious Sea Peoples". I always thought there might have been a connection between the fall of Troy and the subsequent Bronze Age collapse. It's just a personal hypothesis of course, but considering the animosity between the Trojans/Luwians of NW Anatolia and the Mycenaean Greeks, I can well imagine how Trojan survivors mobilised support of their Luwian cousins to seek revenge on the Greeks, and while they were at it also rampage across the Hittite Kingdom (including the northern Levant) to their immediate east.
- Bronze Age and Iron Age Sidon fitted within the Egyptian & Bedouin cluster.
- In contrast, Iron Age Beirut was much closer to Palestinian & Jordanian cluster. So there were major genetic differences between two Lebanese cities only 40 km apart!
- Medieval and Modern Lebanese fit either within the Palestinian + Jordanian cluster, or are shifted toward Turkish Jews (presumably the Turkish-Caucasian component that came with the Ottoman occupation).
As for the presumed origin of the Sea Peoples, based on the mixture proportions in the paper the best matches are Anatolians (37%) and Mycenaeans (23%). Western Anatolia seems like a reasonable candidate. I wrote back in 2009 in my R1b history that "the Indo-Europeans from the Black Sea shores are excellent candidates for being the mysterious Sea Peoples". I always thought there might have been a connection between the fall of Troy and the subsequent Bronze Age collapse. It's just a personal hypothesis of course, but considering the animosity between the Trojans/Luwians of NW Anatolia and the Mycenaean Greeks, I can well imagine how Trojan survivors mobilised support of their Luwian cousins to seek revenge on the Greeks, and while they were at it also rampage across the Hittite Kingdom (including the northern Levant) to their immediate east.