Re: Etruscans

No one says Etruscans didn't only settle in Tuscany.
Tuscany was the only place they were successful.
The Vikings too were only successful in permanently
imposing their language in the Faeroe Islands and
Iceland. Elsewhere, their language and culture was
assimilated.
Germanic barbarians in the early Middle Ages were only
successful in imposing their language in Britain, S.
Germany, Austria, N. Belgium, and much of the Alps.
The Greek language was ultimately confined to Greece
--although there are remnants elsewhere.
Without a colonial regime or some type of overwhelming
technological advantage to back them up and maintain
their language and culture, migrants are usually
assimilated. People of English ancestry are only about
10% of US citizens --they are outnumbered by people of
Scot-Irish, German, Hispanic and African ancestry. If
we go by migrants, Americans should be speaking Gaelic
or German, yet these languages only left remnant
vocabulary.


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> 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
>
>

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