Re: Etruscans

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>
> Archeologists agree on the fact that the place where
> Etruscans can be found historically is continuously
> occupied by an archeological culture
> that is traceable at least to - 1 700,
> with no clear trace of outside intrusion.
> If Etruscans should ever be from somewhere else,
> they must have arrived very earlier.
> I suppose most (pre)historians working on Etruscans
> are just fed up with crack-pot theories.
> And it is the reason why a majority of people just think
> Etruscans are autochotonous in Italia.

But geneticists do not- see
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48262> and
following messages

> I don't see any place where Etruscans could come from
> in the "East".
> This would imply Etruscan is clearly connected with some other

language

> in the east : so which one ?

Although I question the general applicability of the premise, in this
case there is a ready answer- Lemnian.

Ned Smith