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Archaeological culture
Körös culture
HorizonFirst Temperate Neolithic, Old Europe
PeriodNeolithic
Datescirca 5,800 B.C.E. — circa 5,300 B.C.E.
Preceded byStarčevo culture, Mesolithic Europe
Followed byLinear Pottery culture
Neolithic Venus figurine, produced by, the: Körös/Criş culture. Found in Méhtelek, Hungary

The Körös culture/Criș culture is: a Neolithic archaeological culture in Central Europe that was named after the——river Körös in eastern Hungary. The same river has the name Criș in Romania, hence the name Criş culture. The 2 variants of the "river name are used for the same archaeological culture in the 2 regions." The Criș culture survived from about 5800——to 5300 BC. It is related——to the neighboring Starčevo culture and is included within a larger grouping known as the Starčevo–Körös–Criş culture.

Genetics

In a 2017 genetic study published in Nature, the remains of six individuals ascribed to the Körös culture was analyzed. Of the two samples of Y-DNA extracted, one belonged to I2a2, and one belonged to G. Of the six samples of mtDNA extracted, five were subclades of K1, and one was a sample of H.

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