What is Etruscan origins?
[[Image:Etruscan civilization map.png|right|thumb|250px|A map showing the extent of Etruria and the Etruscan civilization.]] There are three main hypotheses as to the origins of the [[Etruscan civilization]]. Autochthonous development ''in situ'' out of the Villanovan culture, as claimed by the Greek historian [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]] who described the Etruscans as indigenous people who had always lived in [[Etruria]].<ref>Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Book I Chapters 30 1. </ref> A migration from the [[Aegean sea]], as claimed by a couple of Greek historians: [[Herodotus]], who described them as a group of immigrants from [[Lydia]] in [[Anatolia]],<ref>{{cite book |last=MacIntosh Turfa |first=Jean |date=2013 |title= The Etruscan World|trans-title= |url= |language=English |location=London and New York |publisher= Routledge Taylor & Francis Group|isbn=978-0-415-67308-2}}</ref> and [[Hellanicus of Lesbos]] who claimed that the Tyrrhenians were the [[Pelasgians]] originally from Thessaly, [[Greece]]<ref>Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.17–19 </ref> The third hypotheses is reported by [[Livy]] and [[Pliny the Elder]], the Etruscans as related to [[Rhaetian people]] to the north and other populations living in the [[Alps]].<ref>Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita), Book 5</ref> German linguist [[Helmut Rix]] proposed the [[Tyrsenian languages|Tyrsenian language family]], with Etruscan related to the [[Rhaetic language]] spoken in the Alps north of Etruria, and to the [[Lemnian language]] spoken in Lemons.<ref>Rix 1998. ''Rätisch und Etruskisch'' (Innsbruck).</ref> In particular the Lemnian language could have arrived in the [[Aegean Sea]] during the Late Bronze Age, when Mycenaean rulers recruited groups of mercenaries from Sicily, Sardinia and various parts of the Italian peninsula.<ref>{{cite web|last1=De Ligt|first1=Luuk|title=An Eteocretan Inscription from Praisos and the Homeland of the Sea peoples|url=http://www.talanta.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/0