8,000 year old embracing couple found in Turkey

So there is now a new "oldest couple embracing" record in finding an 8,000 year old couple embracing in a newly unearthed tomb in Turkey. There might be more to the story than that. The article mentions that the previous couple that dates to 5,000 years ago were discovered in Verona, Italy.

This far, far predates the Etruscan questions, but there does seem to be some cultural connection between Anatolia and and Tuscany, as well as the concrete examples of a genetic one. Maybe it goes even further back than suspected. I'm wondering if these burial ritual were not isolated incidents, but some tiny fragments of a nearly obliterated tradition.