From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 51259
Date: 2008-01-14
----- Original Message -----From: george knyshSent: Monday, January 14, 2008 10:34 PMSubject: Re: Re: [tied] Etruscans****GK: Lydia sounds like a good hypothesis. As
defensible as autochtonism, particularly if one does
not exclude an adstrate-type migrationism. ****=================What is adstrate-type migrationism ?Arnaud==================
> - when did they move ?
****GK: Within the "cattle" parameters mentioned by
Rick.****==========What time-bracket does this mean ?Arnaud=============
> - why is it we have no traces of Etruscans somewhere
> else ?
****GK: For reasons similar to those which led to the
disappearance of many other ancient populations. ****==========People never entirely disappear.You can find plenty of "scars".Such as latin loanwords in Berber, etcToponyms, strange phonemes, etc.this argument is another "act of faith".Arnaud========
> - why is it Etruscans precisely chose only Etruria,
> when they had plenty of places to choose from (Cf
> Phoenicians)
****GK: Probably because they did not have you as
their advisor.****===========Why there and not else where ?Greeks chose South Italy.Phoenicians chose Tunisia"Exodic" Lydians could have settled there before them.Arnaud=================
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