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Archaeology & Anthropology 2018
Global Journal of Research and Review
ISSN: 2393-8854
Page 31
October 01-02, 2018
London, UK
1
st
Edition of international Conference on
Archaeology and
Anthropology
As we know since ancient time’s historians wondered where
Etruscans came from.The answers can be summarized
in: Etruscans came from Lydia (Asia Minor), by Herodotus
(Vcent.B.C.), Autoctonous origin, by Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
I cent.B.C., the Etruscans came from the previous prehistoric
populations in Central Italy Etruscans from Northern Italy (by
a quote of Tito Livio), developed in ‘800 and ‘900, by Freret
and Niebuhr, for Raethians, descended from Etruscans, The
discussion of the origin of Etruscans lasted until today, but there
no scientific proof to confirm the validity of single theories,
neither recent DNA studies gave a solution. We confirm what
M.Pallottino wrote: the question was incorrectly placed, looking
for a definitive solution, without considering several aspects.
We can sustain that the proper historian population of Etruscans
(from VIII cent.B.C.) came certainly from Etruria, directly from
Villanovian and Protovillanovian (XII-IXcent.) for a production
of Etruscan pottery is the clear consequence of the black
pottery of Villanovians and Final Bronze. Neverthless we know a
conflictive period in XIII cent.B.C., witnesses to a profound social
and demographic change throughout Mediterranean, with vast
migrations of populations, probably connected with a general
crisis (that should make us reflect on the similarities with XXI
century); the unresolved fall of Myceneans, the invasion of Sea
People in Egypt, the same through the Central Anatolia with the
collapse of Hittites, and the great eruption of Thera. The same
aspects which brought indeed in Italy great changes, a passage
during the end of MBA, from well-developed culture to a global
impoverishment, in North from Terramare to next FBA cultures
with a cremation tradition, the same in Central Italy with the end of
the Appenninic culture towards a FBA which will lead in direction
to another society, and later to the formation of the city.
Keywords:
– Etruscans, Origins, Villanovians, (FBA) Final Bronze
Age.
Recent Publications
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di Ilvo, Roste e Velia. Guida per ragazzi. Pisa 2010
2. La preistoria. La vita quotidiana nella Toscana antica,
AMAT, Firenze 2013
3. Metodologia ordinativa dei motivi decorativi applicata
alla ceramica vascolare dell’età del Bronzo finale nell’
Italia medio-tirrenica in “Atti XLII Riun Sc I.I.P.P. Arte
preistorica in Italia – Trento 2007” Trento 2014
4. La collezione etrusca del MAEC. Guida breve, Cortona
2018
Biography
Stefano Rossi completed his degree (Prehistoric Archaeology) in 1993 and
Special School of Archaeology (Prehistory and Proto-history) in 2000 at Uni-
versity of Florence, and several Masters. He is member of IIPP (Italian Insti-
tute of Prehistory), Accademia Etrusca di Cortona and ICOM. He founded
andworks for a private society (Aion Cultura) from1995 in Cortona (Arezzo),
for which he is the coordinator of archaeological projects. He is active main-
ly at Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca e ella Città di Cortona – MAEC, in which
is responsable of themanaging for archaeological sector. He is involved dai-
ly with educational in museums and communication with a large audience.
His research area is Bronze Age, Etruscans, Excavations, Educational, Mu-
seums, Exhibitions, Relations between contemporaneity and ancient world.
He dug about 50 excavations, most of them as coordinator or director. He
has published more than 20 scientific papers and popular books. He gave
several lectures for different Universities.
rostef26@yahoo.itStefano Rossi
Aion Cultura – Cortona MAEC, Italy
Stefano Rossi, Glob J Res Rev 2018, Volume 5
DOI: 10.21767/2393-8854-C1-003
The origin of Etruscans: some notes