Who Founded Carthage? New Genetic Study Upturns Old View

The Phoenicians undoubtedly traveled to and from Carthage, he said, and during the six or seven centuries of his Punic life, very likely moved there and had families, but they could not have risen to more than a small fraction of the population. “There is certainly no evidence of a regular supply of female women to become” wives, “said Dr. Hoyos.

From the beginning, he proposed, both settlers and women found couples in the surrounding regions. “We know some Mariacssages among the Carthaginos dos nobles or who were the sisters of Hannibal with princes of the Numidian peoples west of the controlled territory against the letter,” he said.

Bears align with existing theories, the new findings point to a demographic change around the VC a century.

“Genetic data makes it clear that the cultural changes of thesis accompanied a deep change in the population,” said Dr. Reich. He added that an objective for future research should be to improve the nature of that change, integrating genetic, archaeological and historical evidence.

The relatively small sample size of the new study hinders generalization, said Eve Macdonald, historian of the University of Cardiff and author of the next “Carthage: a new story of an old empire”, which did not participate in the project. “But the article shows us how we need to expand our understanding of the ancient worlds beyond the simplistic narratives of us, or Roman and Cartaginés,” he said.

For Dr. Macdonald, the proof of results that being Carginian was not a specific genetic marker and underlines the complexity of the city-state and its people. “Today, we are much more than genes, and identity cannot be reduced to a singularity,” he said. “What made some Jartaginians have many things, including a link to Carthage itself, their myths, stories, cultures and families.”