How’s this for a theory?
The Egyptians originally coined the name “Peoples of the Sea” for the foreign contingents that the Libyans brought in to support their attack on Egypt in c. 1220 BC during the reign of Pharaoh Merneptah. In the records of that war, five Sea Peoples are named: the Shardana, Teresh, Lukka, Shekelesh and Ekwesh, and are collectively referred to as “northerners coming from all lands”. The evidence for their exact origins is extremely sparse, but archaeologists specializing in this period have proposed the following:
The Shardana may have originated in northern Syria, but later moved to Cyprus and probably eventually ended up as the Sardinians.
The Teresh and Lukka were probably from western Anatolia, and may correspond to the ancestors of the later Lydians and Lycians, respectively. However, the Teresh may also have been the people later known to the Greeks as the Tyrsenoi, i.e., the Etruscans, and already familiar to the Hittites as the Taruisa, which latter is suspiciously similar to the Greek Troia. I won’t speculate on how this fits in with the Aeneas legend.
Sorta fits with the article we’re discussing with the exception of the years. But dating can be off sometimes as new cultures at different locations arise.
The dating is indeed off. :’)