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Haha, this was a school project for my university and I am an avid fan of Historia Civilis so this video looks simular :)

I agree. While I love Rome, I feel like it is too often the focus in online communities and I thought it would be cool to show pre-Roman civilization in Italy.

Planning on having it be finished sometime this coming week. I’ve been pretty busy in college, so I haven’t had much time to edit and such.

I totally agree that they are not two completely different peoples. It doesn’t make sense to me either that the so called “Villanovans” were replaced by some foreign culture. Even after the conventional fall of Etruscan society, the culture itself still remained powerful as they held influence in their cultural lands even within the Roman Republic and later empire. Not only this, but the Latins were extremely heavily influenced by the Etruscans so one may say their society lived through Rome and thus survives in part within modern Western society. Personally I use the term “Villanovan” due to conventional wisdom in the sources I read. If it were up to me, I would probably use the term “Proto-Etruscan” as there still was a massive shift in culture during what we would call the “Orientalizing Period”. I appreciate your comment and I am currently in the research phase on the origins of the Etruscans proper in which I will cover this. Thank you.

@@iterhistoricum7788 And I also appreciate your message, and yes, I'd even say that we still have Etruscan traditions and architecture to this day, all thanks to the mark they left on the Romans, I'll continue waiting for your content, and I hope you have a wonderful year.

Thank you, I do my best. It also gives me an excuse to read actual books.

Yeah, no problem. Thucydides is the one who started the Sicani's origin in Iberia which he did because of a river in Iberia called "Sicanus" (now probably Jucar), but this very well could have been a coincidence. the Illyrian theory for the origin of the Sicani is only really held by modern scholars and it has to do with Haplogroups and genealogy. One source is the book "The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History" by John Van Antwerp Fine. I do not know much about genealogy, but from my limited knowledge, the Illyrians and Sicani were linked because of the shared J2b2 haplogroup which is a strong indicator of genetic lineage.

@@iterhistoricum7788 i thought the genealogy confirmed they were from Iberia, perhaps both groups share common ancestors my online sources were not rigorous enough

Tracing people's genealogy this far back is one of those weird things that is super indecisive. The first humanoids that came to the island could have been 2 million years ago with Australopithecans as the Strait of Messina was a land bridge at the time. Fully fledged Homo Sapiens came to the island came to the island around 30,000 BC and then again at 10,000 BC. The Sicilian people grew out of a mesolithic people. These people would have only really traded with the people of the Lipari islands and Malta. With that being said, they gained genetics from various other places as technology advanced and contact with the outside world became more feasible. It would be a near-impossible task to pinpoint where Sicilian genetics came from because people were much more fluid back then than they are now with the invention of the nation-state. It is very possible and even probable that people who were once in Hispania made their way and settled in Sicily. Honestly, with the scope of my video, it would have been difficult for me to describe all of this without staying too far off course. So while I was doing my research, it seemed to me that modern genetics and historians both pointed to Illyria as a fully sufficient answer to the question: "Where did the Sicani come from?". I mean, even John Fine said the Sicans "were basically of an Illyrian stock superimposed on an aboriginal 'Mediterranian' population". This means that there were already people on the island before the Illyrians just introduced new genes into the Sicilian gene pool. So this means it is possible that these Mesolithic people were introduced to a Hispanic people from the Jucar river (this would make the "Mediterranian population" that the Illyrian stock was imposed onto. Thanks for your patience if you read all of this :) TLDR: Prehistory is a fickle thing, we could BOTH be right as much as we could BOTH be wrong. It is extremely difficult to pinpoint exactly where a group of people come from and I tried to give an answer within the scope of my video.

I really appreciate it. I just started another video so stay posted :)

Profound, thought I was listening to Indiana Jones. Great narration, and if producer, author, graphic producer, this is someone I will follow.