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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: Re; The African Hypothesis
Author: Sceptic - Camitlnas Tullius 
Date: May 12, 2000 08:00
      I guess opinions don't really count for much. In accordance with 
      scientific principles we should look at all possibilities and examine each 
      possibility on its merits. 

      There are all sorts of theories, crackpot or otherwise floating around the 
      Internet. I remember reading one about the origins of Atlantis, and 
      claiming that the Basques and the natives of part of Guatemala shared 
      linguistic characteristics from an Ice Age Atlantis located near the 
      present day Dogger banks.. From what I could see it was more the product 
      of a trained imagination than a disciplined mind. 

      In this case too they were talking timescales of 10,000 years or more. I 
      can't comment on the reports you quoted on Sub-Saharan Africa, but I would 
      imagine that 10,000 years is too great a period to find anything remotely 
      recognisable remaining in a culture. 

      In terms of linguistics, we just have to look at the transition between 
      the the "Proto Indo European language" if there is such a thing, and the 
      various languages such as Greek, Russian, Lithuanian and even Welsh, which 
      form the descendants of that language. In most cases the changes that have 
      occurred in the last 2000 years have been less than the changes in the 
      previous 2000 years, since the act of recording a language in written form 
      tends to stabilise it to some degree. 

      However I am digressing. If the supposed connections are in terms of 
      artifacts, we dont even have agreement that the Villanovan culture is 
      totally distinct from that of the Etruscans . Some believe that it is too 
      much of a coincidence that Villanovan sites coincide exactly with early 
      Etruscan settlements. 

      - Camitlnas








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