yialousa1971 wrote:runaway wrote:Therefore, since on the one side the Etruscans are genetically Turks.
Turks are Mongols, the Sumerians and Etruscans were Mediterranean. Not dirty Turks!
The simpleton is getting mixed up with Anatolia, at a time when Turks were in Mongolia, and his present revisionist confabulations!
Besides, the geneticists were talking about COWS!
On the origin of the Etruscan civilisation
The origins of the Etruscans, with their own non-Indo-European language, have been debated by archaeologists, geneticists and linguists for centuries. Writing in the 5th century BC, the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus claimed that the Etruscans had arrived in Italy from Lydia, now called Anatolia in modern-day Turkey.
To try and discover more about the Etruscans' movements, Marco Pellecchia at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Piacenza, Italy, and colleagues have analysed mitochondrial DNA in modern herds of Bos Taurus cattle in the north, south and central regions of Italy. This genetic material is passed down the female line from mother to offspring.
Genetic revelations
The team found that almost 60% of the mitochondrial DNA in cows in the central Tuscan region of the country - where the Etruscan civilisation is thought to have arisen - was the same as that in cows from Anatolia and the Middle East. There was little or no genetic convergence between cows from the north and south of Italy and those from Turkey and the Middle East, the researchers say.
Source: New Scientist