Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: SunkenCiv

I thought the prior conventional wisdom was the Etruscans migrated from Anatolia?


19 posted on 09/28/2021 6:16:25 PM PDT by colorado tanker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies ]


To: colorado tanker

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.


21 posted on 09/28/2021 6:29:27 PM PDT by buwaya
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

To: colorado tanker
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.

29 posted on 09/29/2021 7:22:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson