What ethnicity was it from early northern Italy? Is it related to the Romans?
Conclusion: The Etruscans are not much different from the Iron Age to the Age of the Republic, the city of Rome and the surrounding Latin lineage, almost identical. Both were people from the steppe people from the northern Caspian Sea of the Black Sea mixed with early European peasants (the blood represented by the bellcup culture population in northern Alps and southern Germany), and after entering the Apennine Peninsula, they were again mixed with early European peasants from the Apennine Peninsula itself.
On the PCA chart, the Etruscan lineage and today's Spaniards basically coincide, but the formation process and ancestral population of the two are different. Today's Spaniards were formed by Basque-like Iron Age populations in the Iberian Peninsula, blending a few Near Eastern (northern Levantine and Anatolia) ancestry. Therefore, the coincidence on the PCA diagram does not indicate that the Etruscans and Romans from the Iron Age to the Republican era are of the same race as today's Spaniards. Although the Romans and Etruscans were almost similar in blood (after all, Rome was geographically next to the Etruscans), the two were linguistically very different. The Etruscan language may have been the language of the native early European peasants, while the Latins chose the language of the outsiders, suggesting that even if the genetic composition is similar, the cultures of the two groups may have been quite different, which may be related to the different development processes of the two civilizations.
However, in the era of the Roman Empire, the blood of the Romans began to integrate into the blood of a large number of people on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, which was related to the integration of the people in the eastern part of the empire's territory. (Old Bullhead)
