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>this sample is not a woman, but a man
Irrelevant.
>and its remains were found in Sardinia in the gold region
Its provenance is already indicated in the name of the sample.
>there is no information regarding this in the supplementary material
There’s no need to, his genetic profile and haplogroup are enough to show that he was a slave.
>The name of the archaeological site where the sample was taken is called Ogliastra, and it is built based on local Sardinian traditions using stone material.
You are basically strengthening my point that this sample was a local slave.
>And there is no archaeological evidence that such sites were used by the Punics to bury their slaves or even by the Sardinians themselves. As I said, these are traditional tombs of the place, and with even sites with giant stone tombs, it was in no way a slave necropolis.
Actually historical accounts and archaeological findings both attest that Sardinia, like the rest of Southern Europe, was essentially a giant Carthaginian slave plantation. There were only two groups of people there: the native slaves laboring on the Carthaginian latifundia, and the Carthaginian master exploiting and whipping his Southron slaves. The genetic profile of ORC002 indicates that he was a slave.
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Punic development of an intensive agricultural export economy based on a combination of agricultural villages and plantations . The Carthaginians have been credited with the initial development of the system of latifundia or large, slave based estates that was later imported and refined by the Romans.
Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages - Page 115
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