Interesting Determination

[Minimalist]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/scienc...pe=article

Study Backs 5th-Century Historian’s Date for Founding of Armenia

Toward the end of the Bronze Age, when the mixture was in process, there was considerable movement of peoples brought about by increased trade, warfare and population growth. After 1200 B.C., the Bronze Age civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean suddenly collapsed, an event that seems to have brought about the isolation of Armenians from other populations. No significant mixing with other peoples after that date can be detected in the genomes of living Armenians, the geneticists said.

Again, Eric Cline's 1177 BC is a superb study of that Bronze Age collapse.