Posted on 09/28/2021 3:43:33 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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.
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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 finding "challenges simple assumptions that genes equal languages and suggests a more complex scenario that may have involved the assimilation of early Italic speakers by the Etruscan speech community," David Caramelli, an anthropology professor at the University of Florence,
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(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Well, that they were related to some peoples that may have existed in Anatolia and Greece, the “Pelasgians” who populated that region before the arrival of the Indo-European speaking ancestors of the Greeks. Its possible, IMHO, that these pre-Aryan native cultures of the northern Med extended to Northern Italy.
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The Etruscans had some badass helmets and armor in a style that is sort of proto-Roman.
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?? They weren't from Passaic, New Jersey?? 😯
The obvious answer is the Etruscans followed immediately after the Dtruscans............................
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That was the ancient view, and since they were much closer to the problem, I'd go with that.
Their language appears to have been rooted in the e Med, DNA research on their midden heaps show that their livestock had roots from the e Med, even their tombs echo the carved tombs of the Aegean. Their trade and cultural links were with the e Med (particularly the Ionian Greeks and the Phoenicians, and with their Carthaginian kindred).
Also I wonder where all this supposed Etruscan DNA came from, considering that, AFAIK, they really preferred cremation.
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The implication is, they’d all come from a Bronze Age era overland migration.
Making none of the later dominant groups on the Italian peninsula were “locals” as in “local origins”. Their social groups replaced whatever groups were there when they arrived.
It’ll be amusing if Neolithic DNA from Italy turns out to have common markers with these purported samples from classical antiquity.
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