Re: Etruscans

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 51252
Date: 2008-01-14

Mr. Knysh
you are a strange "historian"
if I understood well your job.
 
Your "proof" is that the hypothesis
that Etruscans might have come from somewhere else
is true as of right now
because it might happen in the future to be proved right.
I'm sorry
I don't believe in promises
I thought history was a serious science dealing with facts.
Alleging an article in a newspaper doesn't sound serious at all.
 
So far you have not answered my questions :
 
The major problem for any theory that makes Etruscans arrive from somewhere else is teleology.
People with a known capacity of moving somewhere else : PIE, Vikings, English, Romans, Greeks. All these people settled in *many* places : They did not move from place A to place B. They scattered from place A to places B C D etc.
So the problem with the non-autochtonous theory is at least four-fold :
- where from ?
- when did they move ?
- why is it we have no traces of Etruscans somewhere else ?
- why is it Etruscans precisely chose only Etruria,
when they had plenty of places to choose from (Cf Phoenicians) 
 
I am still waiting for something more that a fuzzy article in NYT.
 
Arnaud