# Cosimo Posth 2021: The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect > Cosimo Posth, Valentina Zaro, Maria A. Spyrou et al., 2021. 8 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Science Advances 7(39), eabi7673. Open access (CC… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNJ8749HZ/the-origin-and-legacy-of-the-etruscans-through-a-2000-year Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language)Cosimo Posth 2021 **0** # The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect Cosimo Posth, Valentina Zaro, Maria A. Spyrou et al., 2021. **Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated** Articledoi: **[10.1126/sciadv.abi7673](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi7673)** 0 ## What it's used for here Science Advances 7(39), eabi7673. Open access (CC BY-NC). Genomes of 82 individuals from Etruria and southern Italy, 800 BC to AD 1000: Iron Age Etruscans carry steppe-related ancestry like their Latin neighbours and show no recent Anatolian admixture, so the non-Indo-European language survived a population turnover that brought Indo-European languages elsewhere. ## Cited by on this site 8 records [Genome-wide ancestry can miss a small immigrant elite, so a language arriving without a detectable population movement…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/evidence/EVD0DEECAXPT6ZM/genome-wide-ancestry-can-miss-a-small-immigrant-elite-so-a) Evidence EVD [Genomes of Iron Age Etruscans show steppe-related ancestry like their Latin neighbours and no recent Anatolian…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/evidence/EVD0DEEC8PBJNV9/genomes-of-iron-age-etruscans-show-steppe-related-ancestry) Evidence EVD [The Iron Age Etruscan population was genetically local, sharing ancestry with Latin-speaking neighbours.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/evidence/EVD0DEEC9KCC6MW/the-iron-age-etruscan-population-was-genetically-local) Evidence EVD [The same genomes carry steppe-related ancestry, the population signal usually linked to the spread of Indo-European…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/evidence/EVD0DEEC9ZADAMJ/the-same-genomes-carry-steppe-related-ancestry-the) Evidence EVD [Posth and colleagues publish 82 ancient genomes from Etruria and find no recent Anatolian ancestry](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/events/EVT0DEDVF1WNHVN/posth-and-colleagues-publish-82-ancient-genomes-from-etruria) EVT [Cosimo Posth](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/people/FIG0DEDT5ZZX3DP/cosimo-posth) FIG [Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language) The mystery article MYS [Where did the Etruscan language come from: Anatolia, the Aegean or Italy itself?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYM533WF5/where-did-the-etruscan-language-come-from-anatolia-the) Question QST ## Cite it ``` Cosimo Posth, Valentina Zaro, Maria A. Spyrou, Stefania Vai, Guido A. Gnecchi-Ruscone, Alessandra Modi, David Caramelli, & Johannes Krause (2021). The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi7673 ``` [Find it at pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8462907/) Key **SRC** 0DEDNJ8749HZ Kind Journal article Rights The publisher's Kept 31 Oct 2026, for editors Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNJ8749HZ/the-origin-and-legacy-of-the-etruscans-through-a-2000-year/csl.json)