Another study showed that the areas of historical Etruscan occupation share a relatively high concentration of
y-haplogroup G with
Anatolians, and the people of
Caucasus, where the haplogroup reaches its greatest presence, particularly amongst the
Ossetians and
Georgians. This evidence is not specific to any period or calendar date, and might reflect contiguous populations or significant migration far back in the
Stone Age.
Another study by geneticist Alberto Piazza of the
University of Turin linked the Etruscans to Turkey. The team compared DNA sequences with those from men in modern Turkey, northern Italy, the Greek island of
Lemnos, the Italian islands of
Sicily and
Sardinia and the southern
Balkans. They found that the genetic sequences of the Tuscan men varied significantly from those of men in surrounding regions in Italy, and that the men from
Murlo and
Volterra were the most closely related to men from Turkey. In Murlo in particular, one genetic variant is shared only by people from Turkey
In 2004 a team from
Italy and
Spain undertook a
genetic study of the Etruscans, based on
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from 80 bone samples taken from
tombs dating from the seventh century to the third century BC in
Etruria.
[14] This study found that the ancient DNA extracted from the Etruscan remains had some affininties with modern European populations including Tuscans in Italy. In addition the Etruscan samples possibly revealed more genetic inheritance from the eastern and southern Mediterranean than modern Italian samples contain.
Etruscans were mostly G and J people, R1b is Italocelic,