RE: Emailing with a pal
December 9, 2015 at 7:09 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2015 at 7:10 pm by Minimalist.)
Here you go, Beccs.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/ju...johnhooper
Not sure I buy the mass migration concept. C. 1200 BC the whole of Asia Minor was beset by the Sea Peoples and a group of defeated warriors/refugees showing up in Central Italy would have had little trouble dominating the proto-Villanovan culture of the time. A group with bronze armor and weapons would have far out-gunned the Italian tribes they came across.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/ju...johnhooper
Quote:The enigma of Italy's ancient Etruscans is finally unravelled
DNA tests on their Italian descendants show the 'tuscii' came from Turkey
Not sure I buy the mass migration concept. C. 1200 BC the whole of Asia Minor was beset by the Sea Peoples and a group of defeated warriors/refugees showing up in Central Italy would have had little trouble dominating the proto-Villanovan culture of the time. A group with bronze armor and weapons would have far out-gunned the Italian tribes they came across.
