As the Carthaginians Did
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Some interesting genetic research on the Carthaginians:
So it is intriguing that work just published in Nature by David Reich, a palaeogeneticist at Harvard, and his colleagues suggests that the city’s inhabitants from the sixth to the second centuries BC were genetically far more Greek than Phoenician, with additional contributions from north Africa and Sicily… Dr Reich and his colleagues gathered genetic data from 17 skeletons dug up in Carthage itself, from a further 86 unearthed at other Punic settlements in north Africa, Sicily, Sardinia and Spain, and from 25 individuals buried in Akhziv and Beirut, important Phoenician sites near Tyre. The researchers then compared these genomes with each other and with pre-existing data from contemporaneous sites in other parts of the Mediterranean, such as the Aegean.
Intriguingly, Dr Reich and his team established that there was, indeed, a recognisable genetic mixture that could be described as “Punic”. But it had little to do with Phoenicia. Instead, it drew in Greek, north African and Sicilian genotypes.
But?
The many Punic settlements in north Africa and Sicily help explain admixtures from those parts of the world. But the Greek influence is surprising. Greeks and Carthaginians were rivals—and, indeed, clashed frequently in warfare during their respective attempts to colonise Sicily.
Um. Hrm. I don’t know that I would call “surprising” the fact that Greek-influenced city-states clashed frequently, especially in Sicily?