Originally Posted by blitzkrieg80
Proto-Turks in 270BC? Don't get me wrong, I would love to see Turks too, but maybe during a different timeline... Turks hardly show themselves from beyond Central Asia/Mongolia before the Yueh-chi or Hsiung-Nu, and the Yueh-chi are already decidely too late for the EB time period, nonetheless the many other cool steppe cultures.
Unless you mean Tocharians? Their culture was quite a mix, but if anything more Indo-European (ruling class/ language) rather than Turkic, although I'm sure Proto-Turks were present to a greater or lesser degree.