Starchevo-Koros complex.

From: Piotr Gasiorowski

My scenario assumes that up to about 5500 BC (the Black Sea event?) the pre-PIEs and Proto-Tyrrhenians lived close to each other west of the Black Sea (hence the similarities due either to early convergence or to their hypothetical genetic relationship). If anyone wants to identify Starchevo as *the* Proto-Tyrrhenian culture, it's fine as far as I'm concerned. The Starchevo/Körös complex is no doubt the result of cultural influence radiating from Anatolia (at a time when there was still a landbridge where the Bosporus is now!), but I don't feel qualified to arbitrate between you and Glen as regards the more remote ethnic and linguistic history of the Starchevo people.

 

Piotr

I am unfamiliar with the "Starchevo/Körös complex". I assume "Körös" refers to the river in Hungary.