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Board: Etruria
Topic: Origins of the Etruscans 
Topic Editor: Nesnut Hatshepsut
Topic Description: The origin of the Etruscans...

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Message: Rasna (Etruscan) Origins
Author: - Tuscus Sempronius 
Date: Jan 31, 1999 19:32
      H.H. Scullard in his Etruscan Cities and Rome (Thames and Hudson, 
      1967/Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998 paperback reprint, ISBN 
      0-8018-6072-5) makes the interesting point that if Etruscan civilization 
      simply evolved out of the Villanovan one already in Italy, why are the 
      distinctive Etruscan remains not found over the same area as the 
      Villanovan artifacts? Or as Scullard puts it (p. 27), "Why did a 
      relatively homogeneous culture, which covered so much of central and 
      northern Italy, develop into what we call 'Etruscan Civilization' in one 
      area and in one area alone?" Scullard delivers balanced coverage, with 
      both B&W photos and site plans of the principal cities. 

      There IS a certain appeal to Herodotus's account of the migration of the 
      Etruscans from the East as the result of famine, and it is indicative of 
      the complexity of Italian archaeology that the possibility of such a 
      migration has been neither confirmed nor eliminated from consideration. 
      While the forbears of the Etruscans may not have come by ship, an overland 
      migration (if it occured) is just as intriguing, if not more so: I like to 
      think that the wanderers must have felt they had "arrived" in some sense, 
      since they settled where they did.








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