Posted on 10/04/2021 9:30:53 PM PDT by Cronos
A new genetic analysis may have finally revealed the origin of the Etruscans — a mysterious people whose civilization thrived in Italy centuries before the founding of Rome.
It turns out the enigmatic Etruscans were local to the area, with nearly identical genetics to their Latin-speaking neighbors
This finding contradicts earlier theories that the Etruscans — who for centuries spoke a now extinct, non-Indo-European language that was remarkably different from others in the region — came from somewhere different from their Latin-speaking neighbors.
Instead, both groups appear to be migrants from the Pontic-Caspian steppe — a long, thin swath of land stretching from the north Black Sea around Ukraine to the north Caspian Sea in Russia. After arriving in Italy during the Bronze age, the early speakers of Etruscan put down roots, assimilating speakers of other languages to their own culture as they flourished into a great civilization.
... The researchers published their findings Sept. 24 in the journal Science Advances.
Originally published on Live Science.
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Well, my humble opinion is that any people who can make something as good and tasty as ZUPPA TOSCANA can’t be all bad.
While serving in Japan in 1960 I did a lot of touring and sightseeing. At a shrine in Nara, we were amazed to see swastika symbols adorning a very old temple there. The docent explained that the swastika is a symbol that goes back several millennia in Nippon religious culture. The nazis borrowed it from Japan, apparently.
Holy Priceless Collection of Etruscan Snoods Batman!
Herodotus claimed that the Etruscans came from Lydia (western Asia Minor) and most ancient Greek and Roman authors seem to agree (except for Dionysius of Halicarnassus). Could the Aeneas legend (popular among the Etruscans) reflect a memory of immigration from western Asia Minor? Then there is the issue of an Etruscan-like language being spoken on the island of Lemnos in the northern Aegean.
Rich Corinthian Leather...
Which is why most English have Celtic DNA, not Anglo Saxon DNA, and most Hungarians have Slavic DNA.
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My understanding is that the celts are originally from the black sea region. Sometime in the bronze age about 1500 bc —they moved into europe—for much of that period they had a trading network going that was centered around the Helvetii of Switzerland and bavaria. The trading network went as far as into England. The Celtic culture in europe was dominant even in places where there were few celts—as was the case in England. The genetics of the welch the Irish are more similar to some groups along the Atlantic fringe in spain and Portugal. But their languages is celtic.
thanks AW.
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