The DNA of Ancient Israel and the West. 9 June 2025, 13 Sivan, 5785.
Contents:
1. Comparing Ancient Peoples with present-day Celtic (Irish) and Englishmen.
2. Assyrian DNA Among the Western Celtics!
3. DNA SOMETIMES CHANGES OVERNIGHT.
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1. Comparing Ancient Peoples with present-day Celtic (Irish) and Englishmen.
Please compare the following summaries of two brief Video Clips.
(a) What Does the Average Irish Face Reveal About Ancestry?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x7o2XMHEWJM
Shows a similarity in facial features between Celtic Peoples of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland and those of Ancient Anatolia (Turkey). It in effect equates the Neolthic Peoples of Ireland and the British Isles with those of Anatolia. As we see above they looked alike (i.e. darkish) and they probably had similar DNA. Historically however the Irish are considered to be descended from the Bell-Beaker group or cousins of theirs. These were fairskinned, possibly fair or red-haired, and had round heads. The present Celtic peoples who came after them all had longheads. Where did the round heads go? Head-shape may be determined by environemt and perhaps this is one of the prrofs of it?
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Commentary:
Facial features are an outcome of environment combined with heredity and other factors.
Similar faces do not mean that the subjects are related but it can indicate the possibility and strengthen its acceptability once other factors help confirm it.
Ancient Anatolia was in effect at some stages under the control of Israelites and overlapped with the North of Israel. See Maps below.
Not only that but the DNA of Kurds, Turks, Armenians, and Ashkenazi Jews is similar. If ancient Anatolian Turks looked like that then so would a part of the Israelites have done.
Bellbeaker Face.
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(b) What Does the Average English Face Reveal About Ancestry?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fHsjbC5oq9U
Shows a similarity in facial features between the Ancient Bell Beaker Peoples of Britain and those of Northwest Europe. The headshape however is different.
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Commentary:
Bell Beaker peoples in conventional accounts suddenly appear at the end of the Stone (Neolithic) Age out of nowhere in ca. 2000 BCE (conventional date) and very quickly expand and multiply until they overrun western and northwestern Europe. They are credited with introducing the Bronze Age.
Culturally they came from Spain and Portugal but their DNA is different from the DNA of those areas in ancient times and also of today.
The DNA of the Bell Beaker people has been linked back either (1) to the Yamnaya People of the Steppes north of the Baltic and Caspian Sea
OR (2) to the Corded Ware People in Eastern Europe to the west of Yamnaya.
Either way the DNA still does not fit this.
The pictures we look at above may or may not say something but let us put them aside for the time being.
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2. Assyrian DNA Among the Western Celtics!
R1b peoples including the Bell Beakers took over Britain and also took over the Celtic areas who were there before them.
The two western and eastern groups were similar. R1b 269 (R-M269) is more prevalent in Western Celtic areas. Eastern Bell Beaker regions have a relative lack of it..
It may however be related to the Ancient Assyrians.
"In western Asia, R-M269 has been reported in 29.2% of Assyrian males from Iran."
So we do not know where the Bell-Beaker R1b people who took over Britain (and much of western Europe) suddenly came from. There were 2 groups of them. One may have been connected to the Assyrians. The eastern Bellbeakers were closer to the Bellbeakers of Continental Europe. This was long before the invasions of Angles, Saxons, and Vikings, who also belonged to the eastern set of Bellbeakers.
R1b was not dominant in the Levant (Israel Lebanon etc) but it was in Anatolia that overlaps with Israel.
The Land of Israel.
Let us put a bit of sequential order into the whole scenario starting with the Land of Israel.
The Land of Israel and most of the surrounding areas has the same DNA as today i.e. J especially J2, E1b1b, and others. The Land of Israel and Anatolia geographically merge together.
Anatolia had J2 and R1b. They were intermixed with each other in Anatolia and almost inseparable. J2 was present in Britain in Neolithic times but disappeared when the Bellbeakers came.
Neverthelesss, Neolithic (Stone Age) Britain had had J and R1b 269 and others. The same as Anatolia.
"Neolithic Britons were largely descended from populations originating in Anatolia (modern Turkey) who migrated to Europe, eventually reaching Britain via the Mediterranean route."
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=d572c6a4b45d64e1&sxsrf=AE3TifNAXuHWusffi0-RLlnnFJLS0_afPg:
"This suggests that this haplogroup's initial source may have been somewhere in Neolithic Anatolia or the Levant, and slowly spread with early farming,"
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-10-09/ty-article/in-first-archaeologists-extract-dna-of-ancient-israelites/0000018b-138a-d2fc-a59f-d39b21fd0000
cf.
Anomalous blue-eyed people came to Israel 6,500 years ago from Iran, DNA shows.
Study of bones from massive Galilee necropolis helps fill 3,000-year gap in knowledge of ancient Levant settlers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
https://www.timesofisrael.com/anomalous-blue-eyed-people-came-to-israel-6500-years-ago-from-iran-dna-shows/
So the Neolithic Peoples whom the Bell Beakers and their partners replaced may have come from the Land of Israel.
Some of the Bell Beakers may be descended from the Assyrians.
Not only the Neolithics but also the Bell Beakers may have come from the Yamnaya.
The Yamnaya are linked with the Sintasha cultura (southern Urals) that culturally derive from the MIddle East.
It is also connected to the Corded Ware people.
"... the Sintashta culture is thought to represent an eastward migration of peoples from the Corded Ware culture. "
They may, or may not, have given rise to the Bell Beakers.
Confused already. So are we. Do not worry about it.
DNA changes. Some types get lost. The Bible says the Lost Ten Tribes are in western areas and so they are. How they got to where they are and what changes they underwent still need to be studied. We are doing that and opening up possibilities for further research.
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3. DNA SOMETIMES CHANGES OVERNIGHT.
Modern means of estimating the ages of ancient civilizations (radio carbon dating etc) are to be discarded.
If something could have happened in 50 years there is no reason to say it took 500 or 5000 or more.
DNA does not evolve. It appears. It can change suddenly almost overnight or over short periods. Once it changes it stays. Until the next time. In the mean time it might become slightly modified. Life is dynamic.
The time frame in which lthe changes happend was much shorter than is commonly supposed. There were upheavals in the heavens and on earth.
People change. DNA was altered in the space of a few generations not in endless everlasting eons.
4. Note on Chronology.
Rabbi Biberfeld has a theory of his own which ends by giving corresponding dates for the exile of the Ten Tribes (in ca. 720 BCE) to those conventionally accepted.
Rabbi Biberfeld: Chronology
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/16/chronology/biberfeldchrono.html
The work of Biberfeld is available for free on the Web.
Biberfeld Dates:
Exodus ca. 1312 BCE
King Solomon 975-935.
Kingdom of Israel 934-722.
Kingdom of Judah 934-586.
Conventionally the Ten Tribes were exiled in ca. 730-722 BCE.
The Midrash Seder Olam places it in about 555 BCE.
This may be the date we will have to accept.
More research is needed.
See:
Rabbinical Chronology
Major Dates according to Mainstream Rabbinical Opinion versus Modern Estimations
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/16/chronology/rabbinical.html