A genome-wide study of modern-day Tuscans: revisiting Herodotus's theory on the origin of the Etruscans.

The origin of the Etruscan civilization (Etruria, Central Italy) is a long-standing subject of debate among scholars from different disciplines. The bulk of the information has been reconstructed from ancient texts and archaeological findings and, in the last few years, through the analysis of unipa...

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Main Authors: Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Jorge Amigo, Federico Martinón-Torres, Antonio Salas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4167696?pdf=render