Anatolian theory of the Etruscans:
Certain Greek and Roman authors saw the presence of the Etruscans in Italy as a "historical problem," since they differed from the other civilizations in the area.
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Herodotus records the legend that the Etruscans (known to the Greeks as Tyrrhenians) came from Lydia in Asia Minor, modern Turkey
This is their story: [...] their king divided the people into two groups, and made them draw lots, so that the one group should remain and the other leave the country; he himself was to be the head of those who drew the lot to remain there, and his son, whose name was Tyrrhenus, of those who departed. [...] they came to the Ombrici, where they founded cities and have lived ever since. They no longer called themselves Lydians, but Tyrrhenians, after the name of the king's son who had led them there.
The classic scholar Michael Grant commented on this story, writing that it "is based on erroneous etymologies, like many other traditions about the origins of 'fringe' peoples of the Greek world". Grant writes there is evidence that the Etruscans themselves spread it to make their trading easier in Asia Minor when many cities in Asia Minor, and the Etruscans themselves, were at war with the Greeks
However, the Greek Historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus objected that the Tyrrhenian (Etruscan) culture and language shared nothing with the Lydian. He stated
For this reason, therefore, I am persuaded that the Pelasgians are a different people from the Tyrrhenians. And I do not believe, either, that the Tyrrhenians were a colony of the Lydians; for they do not use the same language as the latter, nor can it be alleged that, though they no longer speak a similar tongue, they still retain some other indications of their mother country. For they neither worship the same gods as the Lydians nor make use of similar laws or institutions, but in these very respects they differ more from the Lydians than from the Pelasgians.
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According to modern genetic theories Pelasgian (previous populations of the Minoan and Hellenic cultures) belonged to the haplogroups of type I (arrived from the Middle East as haplogroup IJ about 35,000 years ago and developed into haplogroup I approximately 25,000 years ago), E-V13 and T (arrived from Syria, after colonizing southern Anatolia, in the Neolithic era, 8,500 / 7,000 years) and G2a (joints from Caucasus, through southern Anatolia about 6,000 years ago, linked to sheep farming and processing of metals).
Some Greeks held That the Etruscans were a branch of the Pelasgians, aboriginal Inhabitants of the Aegean region, others such as Virgil thought they came from Lydia, a kingdom of western Anatolia.
The Greek historian Herodotus master Also ascribes the origin of the Etruscans to Lydia. Herodotus says the ancestors of the Etruscans were forced to emigrate from Lydia Because of 18 years of hard times. The Lydians built ships and half of the population left under the leadership of Tyrrhenus, the son of the king of Lydia.
Some facts genetic studies of several Etruscan remains have traced haplogroup G.
In human genetics, Haplogroup G (M201) is a Y-chromosome haplogroup. It is one of two branches of Haplogroup GHIJK, the other being Haplogroup HIJK




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