The Phoenicians of Achziv

Achziv lies on the Upper Galilee coast some fourteen kilometres north of Acre, a Phoenician settlement whose Iron Age burials include cremations. In a study of 210 individuals from fourteen Phoenician and Punic sites across the Mediterranean, Achziv was the only settlement in the Levantine homeland. Its people draw more than 80 percent of their ancestry from the Levantine Bronze Age population and cluster with Megiddo and with Phoenician Sidon and Beirut. The western Punic communities, by contrast, show almost no direct Levantine input: the Phoenician world spread by language, religion and trade rather than by migration. These eleven are the home Phoenicians, the townspeople who stayed behind on the coast.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors.

Every Ancestry Map includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because these are a small group of real individuals, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances. That is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the Phoenicians of Achziv are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about Ancestry Map, the full Global25 report.

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  Who were the Phoenicians of Achziv?

  The Phoenicians of Achziv (c. 900-400 BCE, Achziv, Upper Galilee coast, Israel) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 11 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors".

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  What does "matching" the Phoenicians of Achziv mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Phoenicians of Achziv?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestry Map, never sold separately. Order Ancestry Map, our Global25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers. Browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

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• The Urartiansc. 850-600 BCE

• The Phoenicians of Motyac. 670-450 BCE

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• The Etruscansc. 800-100 BCE

• The Vix Burial Complexc. 650-200 BCE

• The Dauniansc. 630-340 BCE