Getting swamped..but I guess I did ask for that..huh:-)
Sabine and John's exchange:
I like Sabines Crete summary and conclusion: "So no refugees, but settlers"
Also fond of John's: "...I suspect the Macro-Pelasgian were the post
Neolithic aborigines of the Aegean." and may have to steal the "macro".
Some responses to Mark (>) :
The specific Lydian sourcing of H. is broadly questioned, but has new
support since the Lemnos inscriptions...I prefer to see it as his general
reference (from his time) to that edge of The Anatolian coast, south of
Mysia and Phrygia. I question (and apparently am defining differently) his
use of Tyrrhenian here, however, preferring Strabo's distinct layers.
>My reading suggests they would have migrated by sea during the time of >the
Sea Peoples, sometime after 1000 BCE.
Etruscan migration may have been during (escaping? or just extending
colonization?) the collapse of the local sea people's economy...and a bit
later: post 800 (?) BCE...with arch obvious broad Etruscan presence in Italy
c700 BCE. (which puts it late in the so called "dark ages" of Greece, or the
beginnings of the resurgence.)
Gerry: I think you volunteered as detective..go get these pieces you and
Alekseev refer to.
Dennis: Input acknowledged. Will respond (I hope) before Glen's next.
Hyksos? hmmmm. Need sleep.
La Revedere;
Rex H. McTyeire
Bucharest, Romania
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