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What archaeologists have been able to discover of ancient scripts indicates not only that proto canaanite was an ancestor of later phoenician but that it.
The descendants of canaan.
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Canaanites. The canaanites were people who lived in the land of canaan an area which according to ancient texts may have included parts of modern day israel palestine lebanon syria and jordan. Stories from ancient canaan. Their history and culture from texts and artifacts. Not much is known beyond that but linguistic connections tell us something about cultural and ethnic connections.
Canaan was cursed because of his and his fathers sin against noah genesis 92025. They thence spread to the west across the mountain chain of lebanon to the very edge of the mediterranean sea occupying all the land which later became palestine. The levant region was inhabited by people who themselves referred to the land as ca na na um as early as the mid third millennium bce. The canaanites were also the first people as far as is known to have used an alphabet.
Migrating from their original home they seem to have reached the persian gulf and to have there sojourned for some time. In late bronze age strata at the site of lachish archaeologists have found a form of script that is recognized by most scholars as the parent of phoenician and thence of the greek and latin alphabets. Todays jews and arabs in israel jordan lebanon and parts of syria get half their ancestry from bronze age levantines who descended from a mix of locals and migrants from iran or the caucasus. Their first habitation was in the land of canaan where they multiplied extremely and by trade and war acquired great riches and sent out colonies all over the islands and coasts of the mediterranean.
There are a number of possible etymologies for the word. The akkadian word kinahhu referred to the purple colored wool dyed from the murex molluscs of the coast which was throughout history a key export of the region. Canaan was the name of a large and prosperous ancient country at times independent at others a tributary to egypt located in the levant region of present day lebanon syria jordan and israelit was also known as phoeniciathe origin of the name canaan for the land comes from various ancient texts among them the bible and there is no scholarly consensus on precisely where the name. They were a wicked idolatrous people descended from noahs grandson canaan who was a son of ham genesis 918.
The canaanites were a semitic people because they spoke semitic languages. The descendants of canaan the son of ham.