[lebuffon]

"pre-Roman Empire peoples"

Do you mean the Bible?

"Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you,...? Deut. 20:16..

[adenozine]

That's an interesting scripture for this situation! Very insightful.

I was thinking actually quite a bit earlier than a lot of the Hebrew historical times, like species that were more apelike.