[1][2] It originates in the spread of the Neolithic package of peoples and technological innovations including farming and ceramics from Anatolia to the area of Sesklo.

The Starčevo culture represents a northern expansion of Early Neolithic Farmers who settled from Anatolia to present-day central Greece and expanded northwards.

The river routes which traverse present-day North Macedonia have been suggested as the potential path of the movement of peoples and farming knowledge.

180 northwest of Sesklo) is a much more probable point of origin of the population movement along the river routes towards the central Balkans.

[6] In a 2017 genetic study published in Nature, the remains of five males ascribed to the early Starčevo culture from Hungary were analyzed.

Between 6200-5500 BCE, this area saw intensive habitation and land use organized around Zadubravlje, Galovo, Sarvaš, Pepelane, Stari Perkovci and other sites.

Findings from Ždralovi belong to a regional subtype of the final variant in the long process of development of that Neolithic culture.