WELLINGTON, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Pioneering genetic sequencing has thrown new light on the European roots of the people of the ancient Phoenician civilization, a New Zealand co-leader of the study said Thursday.
The research team has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician dubbed the ""Young Man of Byrsa"" or ""Ariche,"" whose tomb was discovered within a hill in Carthage, Tunisia, in 1994.
It was the first ancient DNA to be obtained from Phoenician remains and the team's analysis showed the man belonged to a rare European haplogroup -- a genetic group with a common ancestor -- that likely linked his maternal ancestry to locations somewhere on the north Mediterranean coast, most probably on the Iberian Peninsula.
Study co-leader Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith, of Otago University, said the findings provided the earliest evidence of the European mitochondrial haplogroup U5b2c1 in North Africa and dated its arrival to at least the late 6th century BC.
""U5b2c1 is considered to be one of the most ancient haplogroups in Europe and is associated with hunter-gatherer populations there. It is remarkably rare in modern populations today, found in Europe at levels of less than 1 percent,"" Matisoo-Smith said in a statement.
""Interestingly, our analysis showed that Ariche's mitochondrial genetic make-up most closely matches that of the sequence of a particular modern day individual from Portugal.""
While the Phoenicians were thought to have originated in the area that is now Lebanon, their influence expanded across the Mediterranean and west to the Iberian Peninsula where they established settlements and trading posts.
The city of Carthage in Tunisia, north Africa, was established as a Phoenician port by colonists from Lebanon and became the center for later Phoenician (Punic) trade.
The researchers analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 47 modern Lebanese people and found none were of the U5b2c1 lineage.
Previous research had found that U5b2c1 was present in two ancient hunter-gatherers recovered from an archeological site in northwest Spain, she said.
""While a wave of farming peoples from the Near East replaced these hunter-gatherers, some of their lineages may have persisted longer in the far south of the Iberian Peninsula and on offshore islands and were then transported to the melting pot of Carthage in north Africa via Phoenician and Punic trade networks.""
Phoenician culture and trade had a significant impact on Western civilisation, and its contributions included the first alphabetic writing system, said Matisoo-Smith.
""However, we still know little about the Phoenicians themselves, except for the likely biased accounts by their Roman and Greek rivals,"" she said.
""Hopefully our findings and other continuing research will cast further light on the origins and impact of Phoenician peoples and their culture.""
"
While most novices are trying to get however much separation off the tee as could reasonably be expected New England Patriots T-Shirts , with better golfers, that is not generally the situation. Actually, most PGA Tour stars really hit down on the about 1.3 degrees.
This is on the grounds that its much less demanding to control this effect position New England Patriots Hoodie , as its fundamentally the same to the effect position for all their clubs, and no radical progressions to way or spine point are obliged to hit the ball determinedly.
Then again, novices have a tendency to tee the ball route forward in their stances Custom New England Patriots Jersey , three inches off the ground, and swing up on it an outrageous sum and trust they hit it decidedly. As is prove by your nearby driving go, this once in a while works out!
The spot where most golfers happen is that they don’t situate up with any hub tilt. On the off chance that Tiger had no pivot tilt New England Patriots Vapor Untouchable Jerseys , his head would be before the ball, and he would have some major difficulty kicking it into high gear this jumble circulating everywhere, as he would wind up hitting down on the ball extremely.
Setting up with pivot tilt and having the ball more distant back in the stance permits you to still have a positive approach without having the ball so far forward in your stance that you need to adjust your swing by losing hub tilt and influencing forward in the downswing.
A great deal of golfers ask whether they ought to utilize the same swing for each club clinched New England Patriots Color Rush Jerseys , and the answer is yes, totally. You would prefer not to take in 12 diverse golf swings!
The driver is an exemption.
There’s only one exemption, and that is the driver. The driver has changed significantly in its outline Jordan Matthews Color Rush Jersey , particularly in the course of the most recent 10 years. What’s more, we now have instruments like dispatch screens that permit us to watch and measure how setting up accurately and utilizing our clubs the way they’re intended to be utilized can get you a great deal more separation.
Advancing for the driver will oblige a couple of changes in accordance with your golf swing. The reason we prescribe utilizing the same swing with each club in any case is to get an uniform discharge point so your swing dependably feels precisely the same. The disadvantage to this is that it doesn’t enhance throughout today’s drivers, so you won’t be hitting the extent that you potentially can in that one circumstance.
You need to utilize your body within the same path for each club as good as done Jeremy Hill Color Rush Jersey , however you can change your setup simply a tiny bit to help you hit the driver more distant when you require it. Still, you ought to keep on practicing hitting it square every time with your ordinary setup, to you get that steady discharge.