Re: DNA boosts Herodotus’ account of Etruscans as migrants to Italy

> But
> https://ep.eur.nl/bitstream/1765/7686/1/Woudhuizen+bw.pdf
> (beware, takes long time to load while seemingly nothing happening)
> uses archaeological evidence to link Proto-Villanovan and Villanovan
> (try searching for those terms) to the Urnfield culture of (oh
> horror!) Thuringia and Southern Scandinavia, the same place where
> all these names in -ste- also appears, which Kuhn mentions
> (he misses Andst near Seest near Kolding in southern Jutland,
> perhaps Gesten, if his theory is true that -sten, -steen, -stein
> names are reinterpreted -st names; interesting for me, I always
> wondered what Thor needed that stone for, and there is an old side
> form Tosti occurring also in -thorp placenames (Carolingian times),
> but not in -lev (-löv, -leben) placenames (early first millenium)).
> Woodhuizen has Adrastos (Phrygian(?), Linear B), Orestes (descendant
> of Pelops, an Anatolian), realm of Acestes, and Segesta (where the
> population consists of kinsmen from Troy), Segestazie (from that
> town, cf. Etruscan Karthazie "of the Carthaginians"), Aulestis.
>

BTW Swedish PN Sixten would then be an exact cognate of Segestes.


Torsten