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Colloquia
The archaeology of Migrations

International colloquium organized by Inrap, in partnership with the National Museum of Immigration History.
​November 12 and 13, 2015 at the National Museum of Immigration History.

Archaeology of Migrations 
by Vincenzo Bellelli, National Research Council (CNR - Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo antico – Rome) 

Despite the "definitive" solution offered up a long while ago by Massimo Pallottino, demiurge of Etruscan academia, even today the issue of Etruscan origins remains a baffling one - a problem for scholars in various areas (archaeologists, historians of the Ancient World, anthropologists, biologists), begging for a new solution and an original interpretation. The debate was shaken up over the last years by numerous scientific studies on the DNA of the ancient Etruscans and modern Tuscans, who would appear to be their descendants. This directs the discussion of Etruscan origins towards a place outside of the Italian peninsula, in opposition to the compromise put forward by Pallottino, who cautiously proposed a gradual creation process of the Italian ethnicity rather than a single provenance from a more or less distant land. Today, new archaeological data, as well as studies in the historiography of the Classical period and in Etruscan language and religion, allow us to renew this debate and shed light on certain areas. 
 

Vincenzo Bellelli  is Etruscan scholar and Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR - Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo antico – Rome) 
Excavations director at CNR-ISMA in the Etruscan sanctuary of Manganello, Cerveteri (Rome) 
Professor of Etruscan and Italic Archaeology at the University 'L'Orientale' of Naples, on a contract-based position. Corresponding member of the Istituto nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici - Florence 
Member of the organisation committee for the exhibition "Etruscans and the Mediterranean: the town of Cerveteri" (Louvre-Lens/Rome, Palais des Expositions, dec. 2013 - apr. 2014). 

Bibliography

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Year :
2015