evidence for the land of punt being in somalia

[Al hashimi]

as we already know punt encompasses somalia, eritrea, djibouti but there has been evidence for yemen.

Egypt, Trunk of the Tree, Vol. I: A Modern Survey of and Ancient Land​

page 85
The entirety of the land to the south and southwest, and also often the northeast, was called Ta-Netjer (The land of the god).This usually included parts of what today are Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia and YEMEN

Where Is Punt?

Despite heaps of evidence and decades of debate, scholars are not certain where or even what ancient Punt was. Why?

www.pbs.org

Early theories​

The debate over Punt's place on the map began in the 1850s, when the newly formed Antiquities Service of Egypt began clearing the great temples in and around Thebes. Based on newly revealed hieroglyphic texts that described Punt as a source of aromatic substances situated to the east of Egypt, Heinrich Karl Brugsch first suggested, in the late 1850s, that Punt lay on the Arabian Peninsula. It seemed straightforward enough. After all, the Greeks had glorified the "perfumes of Arabia," a land that lies due east of Egypt.

 

[Al hashimi]

linguistic evidence of a cushitic presence in south arabia

 

[Al hashimi]

Modern South Arabian languages are known for their apparent archaic Semitic features, especially in their system of phonology. For example, they preserve the lateral fricatives of Proto-Semitic.

Additionally, Militarev identified a Cushitic substratum in Modern South Arabian, which he proposes is evidence that Cushitic speakers originally inhabited the Arabian Peninsula alongside Semitic speakers (Militarev 1984, 18-19; cf. also Belova 2003). According to Václav Blažek, this suggests that Semitic peoples assimilated their original Cushitic neighbours to the south who did not later emigrate to the Horn of Africa. He argues that the Levant would thus have been the Proto-Afro-Asiatic Urheimat, from where the various branches of the Afro-Asiatic family subsequently dispersed. To further support this, Blažek cites analysis of rock art in Central Arabia by Anati (1968, 180-84), which notes a connection between the shield-carrying "oval-headed" people depicted on the cave paintings and the Arabian Cushites from the Old Testament, who were similarly described as carrying specific shields.[5]

some of this is a bit iffy as we know the horn is the afro-asiatic urheimat but there is a cushitic substratum in MSA languages

 

[Al hashimi]

another piece of evidence is the higher classes of franckincense 'ntiyw being identified with Boswellia frereana
Evidence: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3856001?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

 

[The Macrobian]

@Cush read.