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Originally Posted by Duchemin
What about the second man's race (bottom right) (nordera?atischer)?
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Its an Etruscan man, according to Günther Armenoid, I'd say he might be Armenoid, but could be as well Orientalid, hard to determine without profile picture. Considering the racial make up of Etruscans and the depiction Armenoid is indeed the most likely. It means "vorderasiatisch" ~ "Near Eastern" - "vorderasiatische Rasse" = Armenoid.
So one can see a lot of variation in the Etruscan population, though Mediterranid was dominant, but there were own threads about that...
But if even in the non-Indoeuropean Etruscans the Nordid element could be proven (not saying they assimilated no IE whats likely), its reasonable to assume it was present in all of Italy - especially Northern Italy and Romans for which it was definitely proven by unbiased sources.