Maternal Lineages during the Roman Empire, in the Ancient City of Gadir (Cádiz, Spain): The Search for a Phoenician Identity

Genealogy

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Cláudia Gomes¹  Carlos González Wagner³  Manuel Calero-Fresneda⁵  Sara Palomo-Díez¹  César López-Matayoshi¹  Inês Nogueiro⁷  Ana María López-Parra¹  Elena Labajo González¹  Bernardo Perea Pérez¹  José María Gener Basallote⁸  Juan Miguel Pajuelo⁹  Eduardo Arroyo Pardo¹ 

[1] Legal Medicine, Psychiatry and Pathology Department, Medicine School, Complutense University of Madrid;Forensic Sciences Group, Forensic Genetics and Toxicology, Health Research Institute of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos;Departamento de Historia Antigua, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Complutense University of Madrid;Centro de Estudios Fenicios y Púnicos, Department of Ancient History, Faculty of Geography and History, Complutense University of Madrid;Departamento de Medicina, Hospital Universitario de Puerto Real;Departamento de Ciencias Celulares y Moleculares, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia;IPATIMUP ,(Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto), I3s ,(Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto);Ayuntamiento de Cádiz;Tripmilenaria S.L.

关键词: Phoenicians;    Iberia Peninsula;    maternal lineage;    mtDNA sequencing;    kinship;   

DOI  :  10.3390/genealogy7020027

学科分类：公共、环境与职业健康

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Phoenicians were probably the first eastern Mediterranean population to establish long-distance connections with the West, namely the Iberian Peninsula, from the final Bronze to the early Iron Age. For a long time, these colonies all over the Mediterranean Sea directly depended on an important city administration, Gadir, the most important metropolis in the Western Mediterranean. Modern archaeological excavations were discovered in Cadiz (Spain), the ancient city of Gadir, as well as possible Phoenician burial places. The purpose of the present work is the molecular study of 16 individuals, (V–IV millennium B.C, V A.D.) from several burial places found in Cadiz, attempting to disclose their maternal biogeographical ancestry. Furthermore, the determination of a possible biological link between two individuals found buried together was also an objective of this investigation. Of all the 16 analyzed individuals, eight of them produced positive results. Three main lineages were found: HV0, H and L3b. In general, the results support an Eastern origin for this set of individuals, reinforcing the theory of a Phoenician origin. Due to their historical period, in some cases, it was not possible to discard a Roman origin. Finally, the maternal kinship between two individuals found buried together was discarded.

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