Re: Origin of the Etruscan people?

On 2 Jan 2006 07:46:34 -0800, in sci.archaeology, dhobraasch wrote:

>>>DB Given dat(a support the view that Megalithicans from the North reached the Aegaeis and the Mediterranen down a neolithic highway, the river Danube (Troia)<<
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>>No it doesn't -- it doesn't support any 'Megalithicans'. That's your idiosyncratic interpretation of a tiny bit of the data.
>Doug <
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>Well may be the 20000 dolmen Palestine were not built by Megalithicans.
>Built worldwide by accident.O.K.

This isn't a choice between either some unspecified people called
Megaliticans (who seem to have existed for the last what, 8000 years and
are still around - how do you explain that), or accident. Dolmens are a
very sensible basic construction. Just as you would expect the house to be
discovered independently (at least I would), ditto dolmens.

The problem your meaning is given not
>as a believe but as a statement, claiming respect. Based on what ? That
>x percent of the dolmen were built of 5 stones but y percent built of 6
>stones ? Some have a porthole others not etc. etc.

It's based on the fact that there are vast differences in style, use,
associated artefacts, location, etc. That they have been being built for
7 or 8 thousand years and were being built in the last century. That
between areas where there are dolmen there are vast areas where there are
none.

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>I try to give an ´could be´ answer. My hypothesis may look for a
>prehistorian at the first view like an idiosyncratic patchwork, but to
>judge this patchwork one needs to know and to understand the supposed
>background of the given patches. For instance one of my tiny bit a
>data."Why could the Libyan but not the Egyptian drink fresh milk?"

For which you give no evidence. But most of the world can't drink fresh
milk, and I would suggest that you will find dolmen in areas where the
people are lactose tolerant and where they are lactose intolerant.
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>Obviously a question which has at the first view absolutely nothing to
>do with Megalithicans.but could nervertheless be the key for
>understanding the North-West European Megalithicans. A basic-patch
>based on Darwin´s Theory. May be a little bit besides the established
>prehistoric mainstream.
>
I can't see how it is based on Darwin.

Doug
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    ... >>>DB Given dat(a support the view that Megalithicans from the North ... idiosyncratic interpretation of a tiny bit of the data. ... >Built worldwide by accident.O.K. ... >x percent of the dolmen were built of 5 stones but y percent built of 6 ...
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