I'm very familiar with the Phoenician alphabet from studying a little bit of Moabite, but not with Linear A, Linear B, or Cipro-Minoan script. That's an area I'm looking into now time permitting.
This article gives a good lay-person explanation of some of the paleo-genetic studies that have been done:
This article gives a good lay-person explanation of some of the paleo-genetic studies that have been done:
Quote:Intriguingly, their DNA already had a mixture of southern European and local signatures, suggesting that within a few generations the Philistines were marrying into the local population. In fact, the European signatures were not detectable at all in the individuals buried a few centuries later in the Philistine cemetery. Genetically, by then the Philistines looked like Canaanites. That fact in itself offers additional information about Philistine culture. “When they came, they did not have any kind of taboo or prohibition against marrying into other groups around them,” Master says. Nor, it would seem, did other groups categorically have that taboo about them, either.