Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant

Introduction

Preface

Part I. Ancestries and indentities

Origins and identities

Ancestry and heritage?

Part II. From Africa...

From Africa to the Levant

The DNA trail

Homo spaiens meet Neanderthals in the Levant

Part III. The early settlements

Our early ancestors in the Levant

From Anatolia and the Zagros to the Levant

The Levant in the Neolithic period

Part IV. A complex genetic makeup

Population expansions

What is an indigenous population?

Part V. Human nobility and cultures

The early dynasties and empires

The early tribes

Part VI. The Phoenicians and their alphabet

The Phoenicians

The first alphabet

Part VII. Religion and the makeup of the modern Levant

A complex narrative

The religions that shaped the modern Levant

Acknowledgments

Inex.