PaleoEuropeans

<<Later on, the PaleoEuropeans [Corded Ware, Yamna] pushed out some
Trypilians and absorbed the remnant.>>

A note: "paleoEuropeans", as the term would imply, normally refers in western
literature to populations spread across most of Europe dating to the
paleolithic. Why the term would be restricted to Corded Ware and Yamna is
not clear.

Outside of the Ukraine, the prevailing explanation for the dispersal of
population centers along the Danube was clearly indicated climatic changes
and a possible transition from large scale agrarianism to less centralized
herding.

I don't know about Ukrainian Tripolyians, but the population of the Hungarian
plain and the western Carpathian Basin appear to have been of mixed physical
types and not exclusively Mediterranean. There is no evidence that they were
ever "pushed out" or "absorbed" by paleoEuropeans from the Ukraine.

<<The Trypilians are described as "representatives of the Middle East" (p.
26) north of the Black Sea (for awhile).>>

The descendents of the original migrants from the Middle East had been in
Europe for 2500 years in 4500BC. By then they were Europeans. A strong
strain of them apparently still exists in Europe today.

<<They are not deemed to have been carriers of IE speech.>>

Maybe they should be.

<<Ukrainian scientists identify the homeland of IE as the area between the
Dnipro (Ukraine) and Ural (Russia) rivers. A variant of the Pontic/Caspian
hypothesis.>>

And they come to this conclusion because they have some evidence that these
formerly foraging cultures were not given Indo-European language by the
"represntatives of the Middle East." Would you know what that evidence is?

Steve Long