Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, ...

The Yamnaya, descendants of the CLV people, revolutionized life on the steppes with their herding practices and use of ...

What is more, one group of the speakers of the language were the Yamnaya, the people who built the wagon graves in Ukraine. Genetic evidence suggests that around 4,500 years ago the Yamnaya ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

Whether or not they brought plague, the Yamnaya did bring domesticated horses and a mobile lifestyle based on wagons into Stone Age Europe. And in bringing innovative metal weapons and tools ...

This is a reconstruction of the Yamnaya skull. A typical Yamnaya individual from the Caspian steppe in Russia ca. 5,000-4,800 BP. Yamnaya people were tall and were buried in deep pits covered by a ...

For Indians, these findings offer a new perspective on our linguistic and cultural connections to the wider world.

The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe (YMPACT) is an international and interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Helsinki Department of Cultures and funded by the European ...